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Rainforest Forest Grasslands Taiga Desert Tundra Producers Decomposers Producers Decomposers 1st Level Consumers 2nd Level Consumers 3rd Level Consumers 1st Level Consumers 2nd Level Consumers 3rd Level Consumers Food Chain Food Web Energy Roles Energy enters an ecosystem as sunlight and is turned into food by plants. The energy is transferred to organisms that eat producers and transferred again when organisms eat consumers. Consumers are animals that cannot make their own food. They get their energy from plants, other animals or both. Producers are green plants that produce their own food using energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis. Decomposers such as bacteria and fungi break down decaying matter for food. Biomes A large ecosystem of plants and animals in a region with a certain type of climate is called a biome. Food Chain A food chain is a model that shows how energy is passed from one organism to another. Food Web A food web is an interconnected series of different food chains that describes the feeding relationships between species within an ecosystem. IN C R E A S IN G N U M B E R O F O R G A N IS M S D E C R E A S IN G A M O U N T O F E N E R G Y Red fox Snake Mouse Rabbit Grasshopper Shrew Woodpecker Fungi Worms Bacteria Carpenter ant Trees Grass © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 94-4606 www.newpathlearning.com Ecosystems,Food Chains & Food Webs Consumer – Herbivore Consumer – Omnivore Decomposer Producer

Rainforest Forest Grasslands Taiga Desert Tundra Food Chain Food Web Biomes A large ecosystem of plants and animals in a region with a certain type of climate is called a _____________________. A ________________________ _____________________is a model that shows how energy is passed from one organism to another. A ________________________ ____________________ is an interconnected series of different food chains that describe the feeding relationships between species within an ecosystem. IN C R E A S IN G N U M B E R O F O R G A N IS M S D E C R E A S IN G A M O U N T O F E N E R G Y Red fox Snake Mouse Rabbit Grasshopper Shrew Woodpecker Fungi Worms Bacteria Carpenter ant Trees © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 94-4606 www.newpathlearning.com Ecosystems,Food Chains & Food Webs Key Vocabulary Terms • biome • food web • consumer • herbivore • decomposer • omnivore • ecosystem • organisms • energy • photosynthesis • food chain • producer Energy Roles _____________________ enters an ecosystem as _____________________ and is turned into food by plants. The energy is transferred to organisms that eat ___________________ and transferred again when organisms eat consumers. _____________________ are animals that cannot make their own food. They get energy from plants, other animals or both. _____________________ are green plants that produce their own food using energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis. _____________________ such as bacteria and fungi break down decaying matter for food. \|xiBAHBDy01746sz\ Grass

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