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What eats decaying organic matter?
it is a detrivore
What are ground-dwelling invertebrates that eat decaying organic matter?
A saprotroph is a ground-dwelling invertebrate that eats decaying organic matter. Fungi and some soil-dwelling bacteria are examples of saprotrophs.
Explain why a marsh provides an environment that produces biogas?
It's generated by decaying organic matter in the swamp.
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 saphrophytes?
saprophyte /sap·ro·phyte/ (sap´ro-fīt) any organism living upon dead or decaying organic matter
What is the decaying organic matter is soil called?
Decaying organic matter in the soil is called humus. When it is added to the soil deliberately, it is called compost.
Decaying organic matter in soil?
humus
What is decaying organic matter is call?
humus
What eats decaying organic matter?
it is a detrivore
Fungi get their food from?
dead and decaying organic matter
What will worms eat?
Worms eat decaying organic matter.
Where do swamps came from?
formed from the decaying organic matter in swamps
What are ground-dwelling invertebrates that eat decaying organic matter?
A saprotroph is a ground-dwelling invertebrate that eats decaying organic matter. Fungi and some soil-dwelling bacteria are examples of saprotrophs.
Organisms that obtain food from decaying organic matter?
in my opion i don't like organic stuff
Where do swamp soil came from?
formed from the decaying organic matter in swamps
An oomycete that thrives on dead or decaying organic matter?
water mold
Where are decaying organic matter and sediment found in the ocean?
continental shelf. My question was : Decaying organic matter and sediment are found in the ocean's... But the answer you provided me wasn't right. The right answer was : Abyssal Plains.
