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    Producers, such as butterflies, use sunlight and soil to produce their own food. Consumers, like lizards, obtain energy by eating producers or other consumers. Decomposers, such as mushrooms, break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil. The food chain is crucial as it transfers energy from one organism to another and allows ecosystems to function.

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    Producers, such as butterflies, use sunlight and soil to produce their own food. Consumers, like lizards, obtain energy by eating producers or other consumers. Decomposers, such as mushrooms, break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil. The food chain is crucial as it transfers energy from one organism to another and allows ecosystems to function.

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    Producers, such as butterflies, use sunlight and soil to produce their own food. Consumers, like lizards, obtain energy by eating producers or other consumers. Decomposers, such as mushrooms, break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil. The food chain is crucial as it transfers energy from one organism to another and allows ecosystems to function.

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    Producer

    Primary

    Butterfly

    Flowers and soil

    Secondary
    Consumer

    Lizard

    Decomposer

    Mushrooms

    Tertiary
    Consumer

    Eagle

    Whats a producer?
    The beginning of all is water and sun. All energy originally comes from the sun.
    Green plants can not hunt or shop for food, so they simply use sunlight and water to
    make it. Green plants usually start food chains. At the beginning of this chain is the

    Whats a consumer?
    Insects such as butterfly get their energy from eating flowers. As they only eat
    plants, they are called herbivores. Carnivores, like lions or some birds, only eat
    meat. Omnivores eat plants and animals. Anything that eats another plant or animal

    Whats a decomposer?
    The food chain ends with dead animals that fungi and bacteria use as food. These
    organisms break down the complex organic compounds which then return to the soil
    so that plants can use them again. That is how the food chain starts all over again.

    Why is this food chain important?


    The food chain is an important link in nature. The food chain provides the energy
    that all living things need in order to survive. If there is a break in the link in the
    chain, then all organisms above this link are in danger of extinction. Imagine a world
    without plants. How would animals survive?

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