Transcript What Types of Roles Do Organisms Play?

What Types of Roles Do
Organisms Play?
Relationships in Ecosystems
A community works like a team. Each
member of the team has its own job to do.
There are three different types of team
members. Producers make food.
Consumers use the food that producers
make or eat other organisms.
Decomposers break down wastes and
the remains of other organisms.
producer
• An organism,
such as a plant,
that makes food.
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consumer
• Any organism that
eats the food
producers make or
eats other
consumers.
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decomposer
• An organism that
breaks down
wastes and the
remains of other
organisms.
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