Decomposers, Food Chain and Food Web interactions

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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This organism draws its water from the ground, traps sunlight in its chlorophyll, and makes glucose (sugar) in broad green parts of its body. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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This organism draws its nutrients from dead organisms as it releases enzymes to cause the organisms to break down and break apart. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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Earthworm. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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Bacteria 

• Producer
• Consumer 
• Decomposer 

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What is the role of a decomposer in an ecosystem?

• capture the energy of sunlight

• produce energy for plants and animals

• break down dead organisms and their wastes

• transport nutrients and other materials among organisms

Which organisms are examples of decomposers?

• rabbits

• lion

• fungi

• trees

What is decay?

• when something rots

• a kind of tree

• when something gets lost

• when something dies

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If there was no decay, what would happen?

• dead stuff would pile up

• it would turn into gold

• it would blow up

• the dead stuff would magically vanish

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