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What is a role a detrivore?
Detrivores feed upon dead/decaying plant and animal material and return nutrients to their environment/ecosystem. Some examples are earthworms, sowbugs, bacteria, fungi, etc.
What is a role is a detrivore?
Detrivores feed upon dead/decaying plant and animal material and return nutrients to their environment/ecosystem. Some examples are earthworms, sowbugs, bacteria, fungi, etc.
What detrivore eats detritus?
It is an animal which feeds on dead organic material, especially plant remains. It could be a decomposer or a cow eating hay.
What is one way earthworms improve the ability of most plants to survive in their habitats?
Earthworms pull dead plant material underground so roots can access it and take up nutrients; they loosen earth by digging tunnels, making it easier for roots to grow, and their waste is the perfect fertilizer.
What breaks down dead?
Decomposers break down dead material. They break down dead plants and animals and absorb their nutrients back in to the soil.
What is a word that means break down dead material?
Decompose.
Decomposers are helpful to the food chain because?
Decomposers are important because they break up waste and dead material.
What is the loose of dead plant material on the soil surface is?
Detritus
How do organisms help create and improve soil?
Organisms help break up dead vegetable matter. Composting is great to make fertilizer. Earthworms also break up the dead plants and excrete their own fertilizer.
Can earthworms survive eating dead earthworms?
There too crispy. :D
What happens to dead plant material that is plowed into the soil following a crop harvest?
The dead plant material gets broke down by organisms in the soil. The nutrients can then be used by the next year's crop.
What is the layer of of dead plant material on the soil surface?
detritus, I think
