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    Primary producers such as plants capture energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to produce oxygen and food, while some use chemical energy. Consumers rely on producers and obtain energy by eating plants as herbivores, other animals as carnivores or both as omnivores, or by feeding on dead matter or decomposing organic matter. The document provides information on producers, consumers, and the roles and examples of different types of consumers like herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detritivores, decomposers, and scavengers.

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    Primary producers such as plants capture energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to produce oxygen and food, while some use chemical energy. Consumers rely on producers and obtain energy by eating plants as herbivores, other animals as carnivores or both as omnivores, or by feeding on dead matter or decomposing organic matter. The document provides information on producers, consumers, and the roles and examples of different types of consumers like herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detritivores, decomposers, and scavengers.

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    Primary producers such as plants capture energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to produce oxygen and food, while some use chemical energy. Consumers rely on producers and obtain energy by eating plants as herbivores, other animals as carnivores or both as omnivores, or by feeding on dead matter or decomposing organic matter. The document provides information on producers, consumers, and the roles and examples of different types of consumers like herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detritivores, decomposers, and scavengers.

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    4.1 Energy, Producers, and Consumers


    Lesson Objectives
    Define primary producers.
    Describe how consumers obtain energy and nutrients.

    Lesson Summary
    Primary Producers Sunlight is the main energy source for life on Earth.
    Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use that energy
    to produce food are called autotrophs, or primary producers.
    The process in which autotrophs capture light energy and use it to convert
    carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugars is called photosynthesis.
    The process in which autotrophs use chemical energy to produce
    carbohydrates is called chemosynthesis.

    Consumers Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food are
    called heterotrophs. Heterotrophs are also referred to as consumers. There are
    many different types of heterotrophs:
    Herbivores, such as cows, obtain energy by eating only plants.
    Carnivores, such as snakes, eat only animals.
    Omnivores, such as humans, eat both plants and animals.
    Detritivores, such as earthworms, feed on dead matter.
    Decomposers, such as fungi, break down organic matter.
    Scavengers, such as vultures, consume the carcasses of other animals.

    Primary Producers
    1. What do autotrophs do during photosynthesis?

    2. Can some organisms survive without energy from the sun? Explain your answer.

    3. Can organisms create their own energy? Explain your answer.


    Consumers
    4. Complete the table about types of heterotrophs.

    Types of Heterotrophs
    Type Definition Examples

    Herbivore cows, rabbits

    Heterotroph that eats animals

    Omnivore humans, bears, pigs

    Detritivore

    Decomposer

    Heterotroph that consumes the carcasses of


    dead animals but does not typically kill them
    itself

    5. What is a consumer?

    6. How would you categorize a consumer that usually catches and eats prey, but
    also eats dead animal carcasses?

    Apply the Big idea


    7. What role do producers play in establishing Earth as a living planet?

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