Role of Decomposers

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What do you already know about decomposers?

Multiple Choice

A decomposer...

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil
• Eats plants or other animals for food
• Makes its own food
• Machine that gathers trash

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What do decomposers eat?

• only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

Multiple Choice

Which groups describes only decomposers?

• spiders, fungi, grass
• ladybug, deer, duck
• worm, trees, sunflower
• fungi, bacteria, and worms

Multiple Choice

Which type of organism is responsible for recycling the remains of a dead plant or animal to the soil?

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

Wich is an example of decomposer?

Multiple Choice

Which organism is a decomposer?

• grass
• rabbit
• human
• bacteria

Multiple Choice

Earthworm. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

Organisms, like bacteria, insects and worms, that break down waste are called ___

• carnivore

• herbivores

• decomposers

Multiple Choice

Bacteria is an example of a 

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

Open Ended

What have you learned about decomposers?