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What is the importance of decomposes in an ecosystem?
the decomposers break down the dead organisms to where the scavengers can eat the organism that was broken down without the decomposers the scavengers will die
Discuss the functions and give examples of the living components of an ecosystem?
In an ecosystem there are producers, consumers, and decomposers. The producers produce food for other organisms in the environment. The consumers job is to capture the energy to get bigger and stronger and eventually they will get eaten or they will die. The decomposers job is to break down dead plants and animals and use that for food. For example, the plants are the producers, while the animals are the consumers. Bacteria, fungi, etc., breaks down the dead organisms and that's what their food is.
Plants and animals which break down dead plants and animals?
usually fungi and bacteria.. theyre classified as "decomposers"
How decomposers recycle nutrients?
When these living things die, bacteria break down their bodies into nutrients completing the cycle
Explain the differences between a producer consumer decomposer?
Producers are eaten (consumed) by consumers, when either of them die , they are consumed by decomposers.
How are decomposers part of a cycle?
When these living things die, bacteria break down their bodies into nutrients completing the cycle
How nan decomposers help the consumers and producers stay alive?
Decomposers break down dead organisms, which turns them into fertilizers that can aid plant growth and return the energy to the food chain, and thus provides more food and energy for animals (consumers). When the plants and animals die, they themselves are decomposed, and the cycle begins again.
Why would producers die out if there were no decomposers?
Because if the animal would not be hungry if there's no food.
These organisms work together to recycle materials through an ecosystem?
The organisms that work together to recycle materials through an ecosystems are the producers, consumers, and decomposers. When producers and consumers die, decomposers recycle the dead material.
Where does animal or plant carbon go when it dies?
Much of it will be given off to the air as carbon dioxide.
What role do producers play in the carbon and oxygen cycles?
producers take in carbon dioxide from photosynthesis and so they create the system because consumers eat the producers they get carbon and so on so forth.we eventually release that carbon into the air as carbon dioxide.
How does the carbon cycle flow to producers to consumers?
Producers take in carbon dioxide in its gaseous form from the air during the process of photosynthesis, and use the carbon from the CO2 to create food molecules such as sugars and starches. When these producers are eaten by heterotrophs, they also take in the carbon that is contained in the food molecules that were created by the plants. Later, while breaking down the food molecules, the consumers release CO2 and water as waste products. When these consumers die, the decomposers break down the heterotroph and return the carbon compounds back to the soil.
