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Decomposers
This category covers questions about decomposers, organisms that break down other dead or decaying organisms to obtain energy for growth and development. Decomposers are formally known as saprotrophs.
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yes and no because fruit flies i think only eat rotten fruit and no because they don't eat meat
What are some decomposers in a salt marsh?
Some examples of sea decomposers are fungi and bacteria. They play an important role in the release of the last nutrients and minerals from organics and reprocessing them back to the ecosystem.
Is a lake trout a consumer producer or decomposer?
A lobster is a primary consumer because it only eats plants
What decomposers live in the taiga?
Bacteria, the prime decomposers throughout the world, may be found in tundra.
Mosses, lichen, and fungi are also active decomposers but things take a long time to decompose in the tundra because there is only a short window of temperatures warm enough to allow activity.
Are bacteria a producer consumer or decomposer?
They can easily survive without any other organisms. So, as a group, they are producers, consumers and decomposers.
No, nuts are not decomposers. They are products of plants (producers), making them food.
No a rose is not a decomposer. A decomposer is things like worms and fungus.
Why are vultures not decomposers?
Vultures are decomposers because they eat dead animals. They don't kill animals like consumers do.
Yes, water does cause decomposing. It is sometimes the bacteria in the water, but it also can prevent or delay the decomposing on some things.
What happens when a decomposer consumes dead organisms?
A decomposer eats waste and dead matter, also dead animals.
What does an energy pyramid show us about energy in a food chain?
The difference is that a food chain is one path of energy, and a food web is overlapping food chains. As for an energy pyramid it show that there is less and less food and energy available as you go from the base to the top of the pyramid
No. A decomposer is something like a mushroom that decomposes dead material.
Decomposers get energy in much the same way as heterotrophs (e.g. humans) obtain energy. They take organic matter called detritus (e.g. dead leaves, wood etc.), and take the chemical potential energy out of it. Wood, for example, has much chemical potential energy (as you can tell from a wood fire). Decomposers break apart the cellulose in the wood into sugar monomers, and then do cellular respiration to "burn" it. Humans only differ in the source of the sugar molecules; rather than obtaining the sugar molecules from, say, potatoes decomposers obtain them from detritus.
Where are most of the decomposer found?
Decomposers are an essential component of any ecosystem. Their main role is to recycle nutrients in dead organisms and their wastes
When a lion hunts, the pride generally eats everything from a kill. Anything that is left is picked over by scavengers. Once the scavengers are finished, the decomposers come in to eat anything that is left. Decomposers are things like bacteria, fungi, and worms.
What kind of decomposer eats whales?
Whales are predators. They are at the top of the food chain! Nobody has found an animal that eats them! (Supervisor note: hmm...killer whales, sharks, humans? This assertion is relatively correct but the question is asking about decomposers. Since everything dies, even apex predators are eaten by decomposers.
Actually an interesting article that I saw in National Geographic has the carcass of a whale on the ocean floor being consumed and lived in by clams and tube worms. Apparently the bacteria that actually decomposes the carcass make a convenient transition for the higher forms.
Is a ladybug a decomposer or what?
A butterfly is an insect, but all insects are arthropods.
Arthropods are a large group containing all animals with jointed legs, such as crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centi/millipedes. Butterflies are of the insect variety because they have six legs and wings.
Decomposers are organisums that decompose or, make it so that we are not walking in a huge pile of leaves year around!
