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There are two primary methods by which living organisms can and do break down rocks. The first is mechanical, which is commonly seen as a tree grows and spreads its roots. The tree roots burrow into the ground and into a crack in the rock, and as the root grows and widens, it forces the crack in the rock to increase. Eventually this results in the crack splitting the rock into two or more pieces.
The other method is chemical. There are many organisms that secrete a variety of acidic and basic compounds, either as wastes or as a defense mechanism. Rocks are susceptible to dissolution or destruction from these chemicals.
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∙ 11y agoAutotrophs (all plants and some bacteria) can make food for itself and in the food chain autotrophs are known as producers which are always plants
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∙ 15y agoLiving things break down food to "absorb" nutrients in order to provide the energy required to live.
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What process do living organisms break down glucose?
The Glycolysis process allows living organisms break down glucose
What are three organisms the break down dead organisms?
what are 3 organisms that break down dead organisms
Organisms such as fungi that break down and absorb nutrients from dead organisms?
Decomposer
What kind of fungi break down chemicals in dead organisms?
There are no specific types of fungi that break down chemicals in dead organisms. Different fungi breakdown different chemicals; whus, all kinds are invovled in the breakdown of dead organisms. If you meant "what are the fungi that break down chemicals in dead organisms called", then they are called saprobes.
These organisms break down material into nutrients for food producers?
decomposers
What are lichens and how do they break down rocks?
Lichen are a composite of two organisms (fungus and algae) living symbiotically and they have a small amount of acid. ;p and it breaks down rocks by growing on rocks!
What are lichens how do they break down rocks?
Lichen are a composite of two organisms (fungus and algae) living symbiotically and they have a small amount of acid. ;p and it breaks down rocks by growing on rocks!
What lichens and how do they break down rocks?
Lichen are a composite of two organisms (fungus and algae) living symbiotically and they have a small amount of acid. ;p and it breaks down rocks by growing on rocks!
What process do living organisms break down glucose?
The Glycolysis process allows living organisms break down glucose
What is a description of erosion that someone could see during a hike?
Erosion is the process when rocks and minerals r moved from one place to another. There are three types of erosion: chemical-where the rocks break down from chemical realtions biological-where the rocks are broken down by living organisms physical-where rocks brocken down physically by a living organisms and chemical reactions You will see this in canyons, hoodoos ,and all soil and rocks
How does soil form from weathered rock?
when moss or lichen form on rocks these organisms break down rocks to the point it becomes soil
What do decomposer's break down?
Decomposers break down dead or once living organisms. Without decomposers, the earth would be littered with the bodies of dead animals, plants, and other organisms
A chemical process where living organisms break down glucose to produce ATP is?
glycolysis
Which force does not break down rocks in nature?
sunlight does not break down rocks
What do you call living things that break down the bodies of dead organisms?
Decomposers? its pretty easy
Why living organisms classified?
Living organisms are classified into groups to be easier to name, identify, and organize.
What name is this process when rocks break down?
the process is called weathering when the rocks break down
