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TEACHER INFORMATION

• Content Area: Science

• Grade Level: 6th

• Summary: The purpose of this instructional PowerPoint is to have the student classify animals correctly by referring to websites and facts mentioned within this PowerPoint.

• Learning Objective: The student will classify animals into their correct group by answering the questions given within the PowerPoint with 100% accuracy.

• Classify organisms as producers, consumers, predators, or decomposers according to their role in a food chain or food web (SPI 0607.2.1).

STUDENT INFORMATION

There are four different types of classifications you will cover in this PowerPoint:1. Predators2. Producers3. Consumers4. Decomposers

PREDATORS

• Predators are also known as scavengers.

• A predator is an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• Predators are at the top of the food chain.

• Examples of a predator are a jaguar and a bald eagle.

• Predators have little or no natural enemies.

• Food Chain Glossary

PRODUCERS

• A producer is an organism that makes its own food from light energy or chemical energy.

• Light energy is made from a process called photosynthesis.

• Chemical energy is made from a process called chemosynthesis.

• Most producers are plants.

• Producers are the base of the food chain.

• Food Chain Glossary

CONSUMERS

• A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive.

• A consumer cannot make its own food.

• Primary consumers eat producers.

• Secondary consumers eat primary consumers, and so on.

• Examples of a consumer are people and cows.

• Food Chain Glossary

DECOMPOSERS

• A decomposer is an organism that breaks down organic matter.

• Organic matter comes from the remains of once-living organisms such as plants and animals and their waste products in the environment that they leave behind.

• What decomposers leave behind is used by primary consumers.

• An example of a decomposer is fungi.

• Food Chain Glossary

QUIZ QUESTION #1: WHAT IS AN ELEPHANT CLASSIFIED AS?

A. Decomposer

B. Producer

C. Consumer

D. Predator

CORRECT!

• An elephant is classified as a consumer because it eats other living things, such as plants, to survive.

QUIZ QUESTION #2: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A PRODUCER?

A. Flower

B. Mushroom

C. Tree

D. Cricket

CORRECT!

• A cricket is not a producer because it does not make its own food.

QUIZ QUESTION #3: ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE DECOMPOSERS EXCEPT…?

A. Grass

B. Earthworm

C. Fungi

D. Bacteria

CORRECT!

• Grass is not considered a decomposer because it is a producer and makes its own food.

QUIZ QUESTION #4: A PREDATOR HAS LITTLE OR NO NATURAL ENEMIES. TRUE OR FALSE?

A. True

B. False

CORRECT!

• A predator has little or no natural enemies because it is at the top of the food chain.

SUMMARY

• CONGRATULATIONS!

• You successfully learned all of the food chain classifications!

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REMEMBER!

• Elephants do not make their own food.

• Elephants do not hunt other animals.

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REMEMBER!

• Producers make their own food.

• Producers are usually plants.

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REMEMBER!

• A decomposer is an organism that breaks down organic matter.

• What decomposers leave behind is used by primary consumers.

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REMEMBER!

• A predator hunts and kills other animals for food.

• A predator is at the top of the food chain.

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