bio trophic levels

heterotroph

organisms that can’t make their own food; consumers and decomposers

decomposers

sabprobe, scavenger, parasite, detrivores

sabrobe (micronutrients)

release nutrients in organic matter; earthworms, mushroom

scavenger (macronutrients)

eat a diet of primarily dead things; crow, turkey vulture

consumers

omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, parasite

omnivore

eat bot plants and animals; human, bear

carnivore

eat primarily a diet of flesh and meat; lion, tiger

herbivore

eat primarily a diet of plants; rabbit, deer

autotroph

organisms that can make their own food; producers

producers

chemotroph, phototroph

chemotroph

make sugars using the energy from breaking down inorganic molecules; lithotrophes, sulfur bacteria

phototroph

make sugars using the energy from sunlight; grass, maple tree