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Producers Consumers
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Mo2-L2: Key Concept Check
Direction: Write a descriptive story in which an omnivore, herbivore, carnivore, and detritivore are
characters. Make sure that each character exhibits the qualities listed below and that your
story illustrates the way in which energy moves through an ecosystem. Be creative.
Herbivores eat producers. They include butterflies, aphids, snails, mice, rabbits, fruit-eating bats, gorillas,
and cows.
Omnivores eat producers and consumers. They include corals, crickets, ants, bears, robins, raccoons, pigs,
rats, and humans.
Carnivores eat herbivores, omnivores, and other carnivores. They include scorpions, octopuses, sharks, tuna,
frogs, insect-eating bats, moles, and owls.
Detritivores consume the bodies of dead organisms and wastes produced by living organisms. They include
termites, wood lice, and earthworms.
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