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When organisms at the top of the food chain die what are2ways the materials in their bodies are recycled?
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Do decomposers break down the bodies of dead organisms and recycle the materials in the food web?
Yes, that is the effect of what decomposers do. However they are only doing what every other organism does: eating to meet their nutritional needs! The eat the food they evolved to eat, which just happens to be dead organisms and the excrement of living organisms. Their dead bodies and excrement is then recycled to the food web and something else depends on that for its nutrition. You do the same thing, but humans evolved to eat a mixture of plants and animals that we have killed. Our dead bodies and excrement become food to decomposers. Occasionally our bodies are eaten by predators in our environment. Thus we are recycled to the food web and something else depends on that for its nutrition.
What is the importance of the carbon and nitrogen cycle to ecosystem?
They provide materials organisms need to build their bodies.
How do earth systems interact in the carbon cycle?
They provide materials organisms need to build their bodies.
Do Decomposers break down the bodies of dead organisms and recycle the materials in the food web.?
No. All organisms feed on inorganic matter such as salt. But decomposes break down organic matter.
Decirbe how substances that make up living things are recycled?
When organisms die, substances in their bodies are broken down and released into the environment. The substances can then be used again by other living organisms. This information was retrieved from the New York science grade 6 textbook from Glencoe science.
What is an animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms?
Animals which feed on the bodies of dead organisms, or carrion, are known as scavengers.
Consumers that feed on the bodies of dead organisms?
Consumers that feed on the bodies of dead organisms are called scavengers.
How does the term division of labor apply to the organ systems of the bodies of multicellular organisms?
Organ Systems Apply Differently To The Bodies Of Multicellular organisms
Feeds on the bodies of dead organisms?
decomposer
What would happen in an ecosystem if there were no decomposers?
The organic detritus that only decomposers such as fungi can break down would fill the world with a mass so large organisms would be competing with dead organic matter for space to live. Think of all the dead trees over the eons that decomposers have recycled back into the system.
Why do your organisms have to maintain homeostasis?
They have to in order for their bodies to survive
What phylum do organisms with porous bodies belong to?
Porifera
