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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.
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∙ 13y agoThey put in nutrients in the soil for plants to absorb.
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∙ 12y agodecomposes are important as they help to break down animal waste or dead organisms into simpler substances the are returned to the soil as nutrients for plants to reuse
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∙ 13y agoThey break down dead organisms
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What do food webs show us what food chains dont?
Food webs and food chains are mostly the same
How are food chansand food webs different?
Food chains and food webs are different. This is because the webs have more relative food choices whereas the chains are limited.
Which interact within food chains and food webs as?
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.
Does a food web show how animals are connected in their search for food?
A food web links together multiple food chains. food webs link together: different food chains that exist in a community various types of communities and producers, consumers, and decomposers
Why is there competition in food chains and food webs?
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What food chains and webs exist in coastal ecosystems?
There are Many ecosystems but there is one main one it goes like this - microrganisms---->zooplankton---> Whale------>Shark-----> Decomposers
How does food chains relate to science?
Food webs
How do people's action affect food webs?
overfishing,and decomposers
What do you call it when may food chains link?
food webs.
What does the food webs mean?
it shows how food chains are related.
Why do ecologists use food chains and food webs?
Ecological Pyramids.
What is the same about food chain and food webs?
A food web is many food chains.
