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

A consumer?

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

Tags

NGSS.5-LS2-1

NGSS.5-PS3-1

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.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

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

Cactus. Is it a.....

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Frog. Is it a....

• Producer
• Conusmer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.K-LS1-1

Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Pine Tree. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Squirrel 

• Producer
• Consumer 
• Decomposer 

Tags

NGSS.5-LS2-1

NGSS.3-LS4-3

Flower 

• Producer
• Consumer 
• Decomposer 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6