Producers vs Consumers

A producer?

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

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A consumer?

• Makes its own food

• Eats dead plants and animals

• Eats/breaks down other organisms

• Buys toys for kids

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Frog. Is it a....

• Producer
• Conusmer
• Decomposer

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Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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Pine Tree. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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Squirrel 

• Producer
• Consumer 
• Decomposer