Science Blog 4 (Class Response)

Consumers, Producers and Decomposers

What are producers, consumers, and decomposers? These terms indicate how organisms get its energy and how they interact/connect with the outside world. Consumers are organisms or heterotrophic that feed on plants or other animals (produced food by other organisms). There are three types of consumers: Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. Herbivores are organisms that eat only plants. Carnivores are organisms that feed on other animals. Omnivores are organisms that feed on both animals and plants. For example, humans are omnivores, lions are carnivores, and rabbits are herbivores. Producers are organisms that get a source of energy to make their own food. Therefore, decomposers are organisms that recycle nutrients from decaying organic materials. They are mostly fungi or bacteria. Decomposers break down abiotic/nonliving organic matter, into inorganic matter. Decomposers start a food chain and end it too. Overall, consumers, producers, and decomposers are terms that tell the differences in obtaining energy and interacting with other living organisms!

Science Blog 3 (Class Response)

Symbiotic Relationships

In class right now, we are learning about symbiotic relationships. Symbiotic relationship is the relationship between two species, depending on which specie benefits and which specie is harmed. The project we have to do is about symbiotic relationship. First we had to pick two species that have a symbiotic relationship. Because of that, I picked a deer and a tick. Those two have a symbiotic relationship because the tick sucks the deer blood for it's own. The relationship is that they are parasitism. There are three types of relationships, the first is commensalism, second is mutualism, and the last is parasitism. Commensalism describes the relationship between two living organisms, where one benefits and the other is not unaffected or helped. Mutualism describes the relationship between two living organisms where both of them benefit. Parasitism describes the relationship between two living organisms, where one benefits and the other is harmed. After we have picked the picture, we have to write about it. What we have to write is where you found the picture, what type of symbiotic relationship it is, explain the relationship, and why it is important to in nature! My picture is parasitism because the tick sucks blood from the deer so the tick isn't harmed, the deer is harmed.