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Producers and Consumers
• Producers are organisms that make their own
food using air, sunlight, and water
• Such as, green plants and algae
• Photosynthesis is the process by
which green plants make their
own food using the sun’s energy,
water and carbon dioxide.
Formula:
Sunlight + CO2 + Water (H20)  O2 + Glucose (C6H12O6)
• Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts
• Leaves have little openings called stomata
• These stomata on the leaves are used for gas
exchange
1.SUN
2.PRODUCERS
3. CONSUMERS
4. DECOMPOSER
• Consumers cannot make their own food
• Consumers are organisms that must eat other
organisms (plants or animals) for their food
• What are plant-eating consumers called?
-Herbivores
• What are meat-eating consumers called?
-Carnivores
• What are consumers that eat both plants and
animals called?
-Omnivores
• What are consumers that eat dead plants or
dead animals called?
-Scavengers
• Primary (1°) Consumers = “first eaters”
• Secondary (2°) Consumers = “second eaters”
• Tertiary (3°)
Consumers = “third eaters”
The mouse is the primary
consumer
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The cat is the
secondary consumer