Producers & Consumers

• Producers: autotrophs.
• There are 2 types of autotrophs: photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs.
• Consumers = heterotrophs
• Herbivores: animals that eat plants
• Carnivores: animals that eat other organisms.
• Omnivores: animals that eat both plants and other organisms.
• Scavengers eat dead materials.
• Decomposers and Detritivores break down organisms and are bacteria, fungi, and worms.
• Almost all food webs start with a green plants which are producers because they produce their own food. Mainly plants and protists.
• Energy Sources are from photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.
• Consumers are organisms that cannot make their own food to survive.