Energy Flow

Primary Producers: autotrophs, organisms that make their e their energy own food and receive their energy from the sun. They support others in the ecosystem.

Heterotrophs: consumers in trophic levels above primery producers.

Primary Consumers: herbivores that eat primary consumers.

Secondary Consumers: carnivores that eat herbivores.

Tertiary Consumers: carnivores that eat other carnivores.

Detrivores, or decomposers, get their energy from dead plant and animal matter, detritus.

ex. fungi and bacteria, earthworms, insects, vultures.