Food web

– Food web consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.

– Food web represents feeding relationships within a community.
– Food web and food chains are made up of living organisms.
Decomposers

– Decomposers are organisms that get their energy by breaking down dead
bodies and waste from animals and plants.
– Earthworms, fungi, insects and bacteria are decomposers.
Digestion

– Inside your digestive system there’s enzymes that break down large molecules.
– Starch which is a complex carbohydrate by the help of amylase enzyme that is
found in saliva breaks down starch into maltose.
– Digestion of carbohydrates is completed in the small intestine where maltase
enzyme digest maltose into glucose.
– The small molecules can be then absorbed through the walls of your digestive
system.
Decomposers

– Decomposers also produce enzymes.

– The fungus is made of hyphae ( tiny thread like structures) which produce
enzymes.
Decomposers

– Enzymes digest starch and proteins in the bread around then.

– The small molecules that are produce can diffuse into the hyphae and the
fungus can use them for energy for making new cells for growth.
The importance of decomposers

– Decomposers are very important.

– When decomposers break down dead bodies and waste, they make it possible for the atoms in them
to be reused by other organisms.