Ecosystems- 5th grade

Animals that feed only on plants

• Carnivores

• Herbivores

• Omnivores

All of the overlapping food chains within an ecosystem

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Circle of Life

Break down dead plants and animals. Their food source is dead plants/animals.

• producers

• consumers

• decomposers

A group that cannot make their own food, but instead eats plants or other animals to survive. This group includes mostly animals.

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

• herbivores

Organisms that feed on both plants and animals

• carnivores

• omnivores

• herbivores

Make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. This group includes all plants.

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

A sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another

• food web

• food chain

• decomposer

Animals that eat the meat of other animals

• carnivores

• omnivores

• herbivores

Is this a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Is this a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer