Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Vocabulary

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What are materials used by living things for growing and other life functions?

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Nutrients

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What is given off during photosynthesis?

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Oxygen

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What do we call a living thing that eats other living things?

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Consumer

Front

Give a good example of a producer.

Back

Sunflower

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Give a good example of a decomposer.

Back

Mushroom

Front

What is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?

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Photosynthesis

Front

What is the role of producers in an ecosystem?

Back

Producers create their own food and provide energy for consumers.

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What is the role of consumers in an ecosystem?

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Consumers eat producers or other consumers for energy.

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What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?

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Decomposers break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the soil.

Front

What type of organism is a sunflower?

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Producer