Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and use the carbon from the carbon dioxide to produce sugar and starches

Producers

obtain energy by breaking down the carbon-containing molecules into simpler molecules and release water and carbon dioxide as waste product

Consumers

break down complex compounds in animal wastes and in the bodies of dead organisms, returning simple nitrogen compounds to the soil

Decomposers

Where can you find Phosphorous?

land, ocean sediments, and living organisms

Where can you find Hydrogen?

bodies of water, atmosphere, land

Where can you find carbon?

present in atmosphere, oxygen, organisms, and rock

What do living things use Nitrogen for?

Make amino acids which are used to make proteins

what do living things need carbon for?

makes up tissues/bodies of living things

What do living things use oxygen for?

cellular respiration

What do living things need hydrogen for?

forms water bonds in macromolecules, main reactant of cellular respiration

Where can you find Nitriogen?

makes 78% of atmosphere and tissues of living things

forms part of important life sustaing molecules such as DNA & RNA

phosphorous