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Q: What is the term for A consumer that feeds on dead plants and animals?
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A detritivore in a fresh water biome?

it is a consumer that feeds on dead plants or animals


What is a consumer that feeds on plant and animal remains and dead matter?

A scavenger eats the remains of dead animals.


What type of organisms feed off dead animals?

a consumer feeds off other animals and carnivores.


Does fungi feed on dead items?

Yes, it does feed on dead items. It feeds on dead plants and animals.


What is the consumer that feeds on dead organisms?

a vulture


Is a duck a consumer or a scavenger?

A duck is a consumer because it does not eat dead animals. It eats grass and underwater plants.


How a dead deer is reintroduced into and ecosystem?

Dead deer are reintroduced into the ecosystem when the carcasses are eaten by other animals and left as waste by those animals. This waste then feeds plants which later are eaten by animals.


What is a savenger?

A scavenger is animal that feeds on other dead animals, refuse or plants. A synonym for the word scavenger is forager.


Are giraffes producers or consumers?

A consumer, because they eat the producers which are the plants.


What feeds on dead organic plants?

bacteria


What organism feeds on dead plants and animals. and helps recycle them?

Detritivores, Decomposers or saprotrophs(bacteria, fungi, and various types of worms) are organisms that feed on dead plants and animals and help recycle them by breaking them down into simpler molecules so that they can be absorbed by new plants.


Feeds on dead animals?

carnivores usually feed on dead animals once they kill them