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Some Organism are Decomposer
Decompsers Recycle Matter
Decomposers Can Store Excess Food
Decomposers Produce Waste
Humans Can Help Decomposers
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an organism that breaks down dead organisms and their wastes
What is a decomposer
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Decomposers get these 2 things after they break down their food
What is energy and matter
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A type of fungi that can be found on food
What is mold
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The gas that is released after a decomposer produces waste
What is carbon dioxide
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They are a type of decomposer that helps humans when it comes to decomposing waste
What is an earthworm
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One group of living things that are neither plant nor animal
What is a fungi
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Fungi create this in order to eat their food
What is digestive juices
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Fungi store this food for a short period of time
What is sugar
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The three places the decomposer's waste goes
What is air, water, and soil
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A mixture of soil and decaying matter that provides the materials that plants need
What is compost
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one group of organisms that are too small to be seen without a microscope
What is bacteria
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When fungi cannot digest all of their food, it goes to these 2 places
What is the air and soil
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Fungi do NOT store food as this
What is fat
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These producers are able to use the nutrients from the waste a decomposer releases/
What are plants
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These 2 types of tools can be used to mix up compost.
What is a pitchfork or shovel
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A type of decomposer that lives in the soil. They eat dead leaves and chunks of dead material and wastes found there
What is an earthworm
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Without these things none of the living things that die would break down
What is a decomposer
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This type of decomposer has no way of storing excess food
What is bacteria
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Another gas besides carbon dioxide decomposers release. Watch out, it can be deadly.
What is methan
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These materials cannot be added to compost (name at least 2)
What are meat scraps, metal objects, and other non-decaying materials
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A type of well known fungi

What is mushroom

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What the decomposer does with dead material and waste
What is break down into simple materials
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When bacteria cannot live or break down waste, it dies or becomes this... means still alive but growing or developing
What is dormant
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This process used by plants uses carbon dioxide
What is photosynthesis
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These materials can be added into a compost
What are grass clippings, fruit/veggies, leaves, eggshells, coffee grouds, etc.