B1.6.1 - Decay Processes

Question 1

What do living things remove materials from the environment for?

Answer 1

Growth and other processes

Question 2

How are materials returned to the environment?

Answer 2

In waste materials or when living things die and decay

Question 3

Why do materials decay?

Answer 3

Because they ate broken down (digested) by microorganisms.

Question 4

Where do microorganisms digest materials best and fastest?

Answer 4

In WARM, MOIST, AEROBIC conditions

Question 5

What does the decay process release?

Answer 5

Chemicals that plants need to grow

Question 6

What happens in a stable community?

Answer 6

The processes that REMOVE the materials are BALANCED by processes that RETURN materials, which are constantly cycled