Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers - General Science for Kids!

What do ecosystems need to keep their inhabitants alive and thriving?

• the flow of saltwater

• a constant flow of energy

• chicken sandwich

Living things in an ecosystem fall into three categories...

• decomposers and producers

• energy, sunlight, and water

• producers, consumers, and decomposers

Which organisms can get the suns energy directly?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

How do producers get their energy?

• They eat other producers? 

• They eat consumers?

• They get their energy from the sun. 

What three things do producers use to make their own food? 

• oxygen, soil, and water

• carbon dioxide, water, and energy from the sun

• water, soil, and energy from the sun

Where do consumers get their energy from?

• Eating things!

• Absorbing energy from the sun

In this small food chain, where did the energy come from that each organism then passed along?

• the rabbit, which made its own energy

• the grass and the tree, which had converted the energy they got from the sun

In the video, which organisms are producers?

• the grass and trees

• the sun

• the rabbit and the eagle

Which organisms are consumers?

• the sun

• the grass and trees

• the rabbit and the eagle

Which are examples of decomposers?

• leaves, pandas, chickens

• the sun, plants, lions

• fungi, earthworms, and millipedes