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An organism that returns nutrients to soil are the?
Decomposers.
How do nutrients get into soil?
Decomposers break down dead plants and animals. They return the nutrients to the soil.
What is interrelationship of plants soil and decomposers in a forest?
Decomposers are the organisms that convert the dead plants and animals into humus. The nutrients released by the decomposers are taken up by the roots of the plants. In this way, the decomposers help in recycling the nutrients. This is how soil, plants and decomposers are interrelated in a forest.
What are organisms that return nutrients to the soil called?
decomposers
What breaks down essential nutrients and return them to the soil?
Decomposers
What break down essential nutrients and return the to the soil?
Decomposers
What would happen to the plant population if the number of decomposers decreased?
The plants would not have enough nutrients from the soil because the decomposers are not around to decompose dead things and get the nutrients back into the soil.
How are plants dependent on animals soil decomposers?
Yes. The nutrients get released from the creature that decomposes and returned to the soil, which the plants absorb through their roots
What are returned to the soil as decomposers break down matter?
important nutrients
How do nutrients get into the soil?
Nutrients enter the soil when an animal dies and its body decomposes into the soil, or when a plant decomposes into the soil when it dies. And that pretty much creates nutrients. :P
Why are decomposers useful in an ecosystem?
co'z it is important in returning the nutrients back to the soil.
Which group of organisms completes the food chain by returning nutrients to the soil?
Decomposers
