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What is a living thing that eats dead or decayed matter for energy?
Scavengers eat dead or decayed matter.
What does decomposer eat?
A decomposer eats waste and dead matter, also dead animals.
What eats mostly dead matter?
AScavenger
Organism that eat dead organic matter?
Fungus feeds on dead matter.Animals that feed on dead remains are called Scavengers eg Crow,Vulture etc
What is a consumer that feeds on plant and animal remains and dead matter?
A scavenger eats the remains of dead animals.
What best defines the terms decomposer and detritivore?
A decomposer breaks down organic compounds in dead organic matter, and a detritivore eats dead and decaying matter.
What eats Wood Louse?
woodlouse are detritivores, feeding mostly on dead plant matter.
Is an sponge herbivore carnivore omnivore?
sponge are omnivores or detrivores because they feed on living and dead particles
How is a vulture consuming the remains of a dead raccoon on the side of a highway is helping an ecosystem?
After the vulture eats the dead raccoon it gets energy from it. When the vulture dies, some of the energy is converted into the organisms that eat dead matter. The energy is then circulated through the ecosystem.
What is difference between detritus feeder and carrion feeder?
The difference is that is that detritivore feeds on large parts of decaying plant, animal matter, and on waste material. A decomposer consumes and breaks down dead organisms or waste matter into simple substances. They both get nutrition from dead organic matter. The difference is that detritivores actually eat the organic matter (like earthworms eating their way through the soil) and decomposers secrete enzymes to digest the organic matter and then absorb the resulting molecules (like bacteria or fungi do).
What is a bacterial organisim that eats dead organisims?
what is a bacterial organisim that eats dead organisim?
What organisms get their energy from dead organisms?
The type of bacterial organism that eats dead organisms, is called a Decomposer
