Food Web

A food web from Oakland could contain the many species of plants, the slant faced grasshopper, mice to eat the grass hoppers and anything from owls, to racoons to cats to eat those mice. This cycle would end with decomposers such as a many of different types of bacteria, protists and nematodes.
The picture illustrates the basics of the cycle but many different animals can be substituted and the cycle can actually be lengthen with the edition of cats or hawks to eat both the birds and the moles.
In these cycles the plants are the organisms producing food eaten by other organisms so are therefore the producers. The consumers such as the grass hoppers, mice, racoons, hawks and more are the consumers because they are the ones that do not make food on there own but instead rely on other organisms to be food for them. The bacteria, protists, nematodes and earthworms are decomposers and they consume what is left over by the consumers. That being everything from plants to small creatures to big creatures because there is no real waste in nature. (natraturf)