Producer Consumer Decomposers

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

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Earthworm. Is it a...

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

What are heterotrophs?

• Consumers that eat others.

• Consumers that eat plants.

• Consumers that create what they eat.

Match the following

• consumer

• organism that obtains energy from dead organic matter

• producer

• organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms

• decomposer

• a living thing that makes its own food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A cougar is a 

• producer

• consumer

• decompser

A carrot is an example of a 

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following

• Eats plants & animals

• Omnivore

• Eats plants

• Primary Consumer

• Carnivore/Omnivore

• Secondary Consumer

• Eats animals

• Herbivore

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Pine Tree. Is it a...

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3