Producers and Consumers Decomposers

This organism draws its water from the ground, traps sunlight in its chlorophyll, and makes glucose (sugar) in broad green parts of its body. Is it a...

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Earthworm. Is it a...

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A producer?

• Eats other plants and animals

• Makes its own food

• Eats dead plants or animals

• Makes toys for kids

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Use the chart describing organisms found in Lake Erie to classify each organism as a producer, consumer, or decomposer.

Groups:

(a) Producer

,

(b) Consumer

,

(c) Decomposer

• Bacteria

• Algae

• Mussels

• White bass

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What are heterotrophs?

• Consumers that eat others.

• Consumers that eat plants.

• Consumers that create what they eat.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Match the following

• decomposer

• organism that obtains energy from dead organic matter

• consumer

• organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms

• producer

• a living thing that makes its own food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

These microorganisms act as decomposers.

• algae

• virus

• blood cells

• bacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

(True or False)- Heterotrophs such as us humans and other animals such as lions, zebras, and tigers get their nutrients by consuming other organisms.

• True

• False