Unit 2 -- Roles of Living Things Notes

  • Roles of LIVING things!
  • Three basic ways of gathering Energy
  • Producers
  • Consumers
  • Decomposers
  • Producers       
  • Make their own food
  • Plants, Plants, Plants
  • Process of Photosynthesis converts:
    • CO2 + Water = Sugars (carbs)
  • Aquatic Environment – Protists and Bacteria and Algae
  • Consumers
  • Organisms that cannot make their own food.
  • All animals are consumers!
  • Obtain energy from eating other organisms.
  • 4 Types
  • Herbivores – Only eat plants… Primary consumers
  • Carnivores – Only capture and eat herbivores or other carnivores.
  • Omnivores – Eat both plants and animals.
  • Scavengers – Feed on the bodies of dead organisms.
  • Decomposers
  • Feed on dead bodies and organic waste.
  • Mainly Bacteria, Earthworms and Fungi
  • They complete the cycle!