Decomposers, including fungi and bacteria, cause other organisms or physical elements to break apart and/or rot.
Consumers can be further divided into herbivores (plant eaters), carnivores (meat eaters), and omnivores (plant and meat eaters). Consumers are animals which provide carbon dioxide for plants and are dependent on plants and other animals for energy. Producers are plants which utilize the sun, water, and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and nutrients from the soil, to make chlorophyll, thus producing their own food and providing oxygen and food for animals. First go to this glogster and listen to the video and click on each of the sections.īackground Information on Trophic Levels of the EvergladesĮverglades National Park has a great diversity of flora (plants) and fauna (animals) that live in a variety of habitats (homes) found within the Everglades ecosystem.
