A gardener rakes the leaves in her yard in the fall and scatters them in a thick layer over her garden beds. By late spring the next year the leaves have disappeared. This could be the work of which types of creatures? Question 5 options:
Biology · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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The gardener's raked leaves that was left over her garden beds were most likely consumed by decomposers. Decomposers are organisms that eats/digests dead organic materials as their source of food. The eaten/digested organic materials returns to the soil or atmosphere in either available or unavailable form and will be used again by plants as their source of nutrients. Decomposers can be microscopic like bacteria and protozoa and also be seen by the naked eye like earthworms and termites.