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A producer gets it's matter from it's surroundings. E.g a plant will get minerals and water from the ground through it's roots for photosynthesis.
Plants can also produce food by using the sun's light for photolysis of the water molecules. (Basically splitting the H20 into Hydrogen and O2 (oxygen gas)). They release oxygen back into the air and combine the Hydrogen ion with carbon dioxide that they obtained from the air to create sugar (glucose) which is basically chemical food for the plants. This is the summed up process of photosynthesis.
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Is organic matter producers or decomposers?
Organic matter is what life is made of - this means that some of that life are producers and some are decomposers (and some are consumers).
How does bacteria breakdown dead matter?
producers
Life cycles recycle matter and help to create balance on Earth because?
Producers make their own food. Consumers gain energy from producers. Decomposers break down dead matter into essential nutrients that are then reused by producers.
What is the difference between producers and decomposers?
producers are plants that make food for themselves by photosynthesis and decomposers convert organic matter into inorganic materials.
Are fungi ever producers?
Fungi are not producers in any instance as they do not produce their own food. They are mainly decomposers as they eat dead organic matter mostly.
Matter move through an ecosystem in?
In a food chain from producers to consumers .
Are herbivores decomposers or producers?
Neither. Herbivores are consumers as they consume living plant matter.
How do producers and consumers get their energy?
Producers and consumers exchange energy and matter in various ways. The producers are used as food for the consumers and the consumers are used as fertilizer and food for producers when they die.
Is fungi and bacteria producers?
Fungi and bacteria are not producers, they are decomposers. A producer is an organism that makes its own food, such as plants through photosynthesis. Decomposers break down dead matter.
Where are most of the nutrients in the rain forest?
It really doesn't matter what kind of ecosystem, the most nutrients are in the producers. Producers make their own food using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.
Why are decomposers categorized as consumers. How do they differ from producers.?
Producers create food through photosynthesis, whereas decomposers breakdown dead or decaying matter. Decomposers do not make their own food, and so are consumers.
Why does the flow of matter in an ecosystem stay constant over time?
because the decomposers spend back the energy to the producers
