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Decomposers get their energy from absorbing food from dead organisms. Thanks for a great question!
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They get energy from dead animals or plants they find on earth. They are a lot like scavengers.
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How do animal like protists get food?
they get there food by moving place to place to obtain their food.
Are ants decomposers or consumers?
They are decomposers because they are so low on the food chain, that they would not turn down an opportunity for food. However, ants also eat other types of food besides other dead organisms.
Do decomposers eat plants?
Decomposers do not their own food. These animals are born to break down the wastes left by the animals around them.
What is the difference between scavengers and decomposers?
Decomposers break down organic matter while scavengers go around eating dead animals for food. An example of a decomposer is a fungus, and an example off a scaveenger is a vulture.
What are the decomposers in the jungle?
There are alot of decomposers in the jungle. The decomposers in the jungle break the dead animals into smaller pieces to give food to the soil to feed the plantes to feed the producers to feed the decomposers.
How do decomposers obtain food?
Decomposers obtain food by, obliviousely, decomposing rotting plants, leaves etc. They also might eat dead animals.
Are raccoons destroyers or decomposers?
Neither, they are omnivores but with the capability to destroy when they need to do so to obtain food or protect their food.
What is the most popular means by which bacteria obtain food?
bacteria are decomposers wich means they rely on dead organisms for food
How producers consumers and decomposers obtain energy?
producers obtain energy from water and sunlight, consumers obtain energy from producers and decomposers obtain energy from comsumers.
What do decomposers obtain their energy from?
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What are organisms called that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plans and animals?
bacteriaThey are decomposers
Organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plants and animals are called?
Organisms that break down wastes an dead organisms and return the raw material to the environment are called decomposers.
Why are decomposers such as mushrooms considered heterotrophs and not autotrophs?
Mushrooms are considered heterotrophs because they don't make their own food. Instead, they obtain their food by absorbing nutrients from decomposing organisms in the environment.
What is the sourc of all food energy on earth?
decomposers
Do bacteria obtain food the way fungi do?
Fungi and bacteria are both decomposers. decomposers get nutrients by breaking down dead organic matter. while the exact process of ingesting the nutrients may be different, the basic idea is the same.
Which kind of organisms obtain energy only from producers?
decomposers
What if there are too many decomposers?
The decomposers would run out of food (for them) to decompose.
