Ecology

This week I learned about ECOLOGY.  One thing I learned about was producers, consumers and decomposers.  A producer is like a plant or flower that has gotten energy from the sun.  A consumer is something that eats the plant so it passes on the energy.  Like a mouse eats a seed, then a snake eats the mouse, then an owl eats the snake, then the owl dies and decomposes and small bugs and mushrooms break it down.  Like maggots, fungi, ants, worms and beetles.  We learned a lot this week. But I think this was the best thing we learned this week!

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