Decomposers and scavengers break down dead plants and animals as well as waste, which provides nutrients to plants and prevents dead matter from accumulating. Scavengers like flies and wasps eat dead organisms, while earthworms eat dead plants. Once scavengers are done, decomposers like fungi and bacteria further break things down. Different decomposers specialize in breaking down different materials like meat or plant matter.

1. Decomposers
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2. • Decomposers and scavengers break down
dead plants and animals. They also break
down the waste (poop) of other organisms.
Decomposers are very important for any
ecosystem. If they weren't in the ecosystem,
the Plants would not get essential nutrients,
and dead matter and waste would pile up.
• There are two kinds of decomposers,
scavengers and decomposers.

3. • Scavengers are animals that find dead animals
or plants and eat them. While they eat them,
they break them into small bits. In this
simulation, Flies, wasp and cockroaches are
scavengers. Earthworms are also scavengers,
but they only break down plants.

4. • Once a scavenger is done,
the decomposers take over, and finish the job.
Many kinds of decomposers are microscopic,
meaning that they can't be seen without a
microscope. Others, like fungi, can be seen.
• Different kinds of decomposers do different
jobs in the ecosystem.
Others, like some kinds of bacteria, prefer
breaking down meat or waste from carnivores.