1. Description: Goals: Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Go into greater detail of trophic pyramids and introduce the roles for each level.

2. Objectives: Day 2 Explain the levels of the trophic pyramid Describe the roles of organisms for those levels.

3. Warm-Up Q = Use the first letter in of the six kingdoms to make a sentence: Example from one word: HORSE How Often do Rabbits Swim on Easter? A = Eubacteria, Archeabacteria, Protist, Fungi, Plants, Animals: Ex. People Eat Apples grown On Allen’s Plant Farm.

4. 6 Kingdoms • Eubacteria • Archaebacteria • Fungi • Plants • Animals • Protists

5. Basic Energy Pyramid(Trophic Levels) Secondary Consumers Carnivores Herbivores Primary Consumers Primary Producers Autotrophs

6. Omnivores Top Consumer Secondary Consumer (Carnivores) Primary Consumers (Herbivores) Primary Producers (Autotrophs) Scavengers Decomposers

7. Examples • Primary Producer • Trees • Primary Consumer • Buffalo • Secondary Consumer • Hyena • Top Consumer • Tiger • Omnivore • Humans

8. Examples • Decomposers • Fungi • Bacteria • Scavengers • Vulture • Raccoons

9. Trophic Pyramid & Vocabulary You’ll need your textbook: Complete the Vocabulary Chart and Trophic Pyramid.