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Is an earthworm a producer decomposer or consumer?
Earthworm is a consumer.Althought earthworm feeds on decaying matter,it cannot break it down into simpler substance.Only decomposers have the special chemical to carry out decomposition.Earthworm helps decomposers.This special group is called detrivores. THEY ARE EXTREMLY COOL.
An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms?
it's decomposers
What are the animals that help decomposers to decompose quickly?
Earthworm, Termite, Vulture
Is a earthworm a secondary consumer?
Earthworms are Decomposers, they are considered their own level of the food chain,
What do earthworms represent?
Earthworms are nice decomposers due to the nice heat in their enviroment. But what are the meanings of an earthworm? That question is still unknown. Jose the third is a famous earthworm.
If an organism eats decomposers is it a decomposer?
An organism that eats live or freshly killed decomposers is a consumer. That could be a rodent eating a mushroom or a bird eating an earthworm. If the decomposers that are being consumed are already dead and decaying, and if they are being reduced to basic nutrients, then the eating organism is a decomposer. It will probably be a bacteria or fungus or earthworm or fly maggot.
Are there any decomposers in the movie the Lion King?
Producers in The Lion King would be the sun and the plants, while the decomposers would probably be the grubs (bugs) that Timon and Pumbaa eat.
What are organisms that break down waste and dead organisms called?
Organisms called decomposers or detritivores.
Are Eisenia fetida the best decomposers?
yes the Eisenia Fetida (red worm) or the Lumbricus rubellus (red earthworm)
Is earthworm a decomposer?
No. Earthworms are not decomposers. Since they have to consumer and internally digest the material, they are classified as detritivores.
Is earthworm a producer or a consumer?
All animals are consumers - only plants and some protists are producers.
Bacteria that breaks down large chemicals in dead organisms into small chemicals are called?
They are called Decomposers.
