ProducerProducer•PRODUCES its own food through photosynthesis

•Examples include plants and algae

Primary Primary consumersconsumers

•Eat the producers

Secondary Secondary ConsumersConsumers

•Eat the primary consumers•3rd level consumers eat secondary consumers, 4th level consumers eat secondary consumers and so on

DecomposersDecomposers•DECOMPOSE things in an ecosystem

•Consume all levels of the food web

TrophiTrophic c

LevelsLevels•Levels in a food web

•Producer, consumer and decomposer

Read pages 17 - 21

Reflection pg. 36Reflection pg. 36•Choose an ecosystem•Create a trophic level pyramid for organisms in that ecosystem. Don’t forget the decomposers!