Decomposers break down dead organic material, deriving energy and releasing nutrients back into the environment. Decomposers are primarily microscopic fungi and bacteria that are abundant in soil and pond muck. As decomposers break down dead plants and animals, they cycle nutrients through ecosystems as the janitors of nature.

1. Decomposers
Created by: AC Miles R. Lajo

2. Important
words
Decomposers break down
material, getting the energy
they need to live and releasing
elements back into the
environment to be reused by
other organisms.
Decomposer are the janitors of
nature.

3. Decomposers
are….
Simple plants
such as bacteria
and fungi. Most
are microscopic
organisms.

4. Decomposers in the
Pond Ecosystem
 Located
everywhere but
more abundant
at the bottom.
Dead plants and
animals settle.
 That is why the
pond muck
smelled bad

5. Decomposers in the
Forest
In the forest
abundant in the
top layers of the
soil

6. Cycle of the
decom posers

7. TRUE OR FALSE
___1.Decomposer is the janitor of
the house?
___2.Decomosers decompose
dead body?
___3.Lion is a example of
decomposer?

8. ___4.Decomposer are simple plant
such us fungi and bacteria?
___5. Most decomposers are
microscopic organisms.

9. !!ANSWER KEY!!
1.FALSE
2.TRUE
3.FALSE
4.TRUE
5.TRUE

10. !!ANSWER KEY!!
1.FALSE
2.TRUE
3.FALSE
4.TRUE
5.TRUE