Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

A producer?

• Eats other plants and animals
• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants or animals
• Makes toys for kids

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Plants and animals are often referred to as?

• Organism 
• Things
• Werid
• Ugly

A consumer?

• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants and animals
• Eats plants and other animals for energy
• Buys toys for kids

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil
• Eats plants or other animals for food
• Makes its own food
• Machine that gathers trash

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

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-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

This organism traps its prey in a web, stings it, paralyzes it, and sometimes saves it to eat later. Is it a.....

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

This organism draws its nutrients from dead organisms as it releases enzymes to cause the organisms to break down and break apart. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Cactus. Is it a.....

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Frog. Is it a....

• Producer
• Conusmer
• Decomposer

Earthworm. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3