When organic matter decomposes, it becomes fertilizer, releasing nutrients that plants need in order to grow. It is basically a recycling process. If this was not happening, soil fertility would become exhausted as plants continue to take minerals out of the soil.
Food webs and food chains are mostly the same
Food chains and food webs are different. This is because the webs have more relative food choices whereas the chains are limited.
Producers (plants), consumers (animals that eat plants or other animals), scavengers (those that eat dead things), and decomposers (those that eat and break down other deceased organisms) affect the food chains and food webs of an ecosystem or habitat.
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Food webs
overfishing,and decomposers
food webs.
it shows how food chains are related.
Ecological Pyramids.
A food web is many food chains.
Food chains and webs not only describe the order in which organisms are eaten, but they also describe the _____.
Food webs on land and in the water are the same because they both have producers, consumers and decomposers.