Decomposers in Food Web

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

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Which groups describes only decomposers?

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

Which organism is a decomposer?

• grass
• rabbit
• human
• bacteria

Decomposers break waste down into ___

• bacteria and some fungi
• nutrients and other chemicals
• plants and trees
• insects and worms

In an ecosystem, decomposers break down ___

• nutrients
• waste
• insects
• worms

Chemicals go into the ground and are taken up by ___

• the sun
• plants
• decomposers
• animals

Which organisms keep waste from piling up in an ecosystem?

• decomposers
• plants
• mice
• owls

If decomposers are removed from Earth, would food still rot?

• yes

• no

The main role of decomposers is to...

• alter the atmosphere

• eat living organisms

• help biomass decay

Which of the following is not a role of decomposers?

• breaking down biomass

• recycling nutrients

• releasing carbon and nitrogen back into the ecosystem

• helping producers with photosynthesis