Ecosystems: Consumers, Producers, Decomposers

Organisms that eat only plants

• producers

• consumers

• herbivores

• omnivores

The process producers use to convert the sun's energy into their own energy

• metamorphosis

• photosynthesis

• respiration

• transpiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

organisms that eat only animals

• consumers

• herbivores

• carnivores

• decomposers

Humans

• carnivore

• producer

• omnivore

• herbivore

organisms that eat both plants and animals

• decomposers

• herbivores

• carnivores

• omnivores

Breaks down dead plants and animals into energy and nutrients for the soil

• carnivore

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that makes its own food

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

an area where all living and non-living things interact

• population

• abiotic

• ecosystem

• biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

abiotic

• living things

• non-living things

• animals

• plants

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

biotic

• living things

• soil

• water

• non-living things

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3