Feeding Relationships

Some of the organisms in the table below are hetertrophs and others are autotrophs. The hetertophs may also be consumers, detritivores or saprotrophs.

When these organisms are put into food chains they can be identified as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, or decomposers.

They also have a trophic level.

Complete the table below by adding as many correct labels to each diagram. The first one has been done for you.

Horses – eat grass	Heterotroph: Primary consumer Trophic Level 2	Earthworm – eats dead leaves and roots
Dahlia flower		Fungi – secrete digestive enzymes into dead plants and then absorb nutrients.
Toucan – eats fruit and occasionally bird eggs.		Tree-fern from New Zealand
Venus Fly Trap – a plant that catches and digests flies		Paramecuim – single celled organism eats bacteria & blue green bacteria.