What Are the Energy Roles in an Ecosystem
-Each organism has a different roles in an ecosystem
-Each organism in an ecosystem fills the energy roles of the producer, consumer, and decomposer
Producers
Energy enters most ecosystem as sunlight so that producers like plants and algae and types of bacteria capture all the energy of the sunlight that it is getting shown to and convert the sunlights energy to food energy. These organisms use the suns energy to turn water and carbon dioxide into food molecules in a process called photosynthesis.An organism that makes its own food is a producer, producers are the main source of ALL the food in an ecosystem. In a few ecosystems, producers obtain the energy from a source other than the sun.
Consumers
Some members of an ecosystem cannot make their own food such as a producer, these types of organisms are called consumers. Consumers are classified by what they eat. The consumers that eat plants are called herbivores, organisms that are herbivore's are caterpillars, rabbits, and deer. The other type of consumers are Carnivores and the carnivores eat meat, organisms that are carnivores are wolves, walruses, and snakes. There are organisms that eat both plants and animals and they are known as omnivores, known omnivores are crows, bears, and humans.
Decomposers
Decomposers break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to an ecosystem. So think of the Decomposers as like natures recyclers.
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