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Decomposers like fungi and slime molds break down dead and waste material into smaller pieces, releasing minerals and nutrients back into the soil. These decomposers help recycle nutrients by breaking down material that living organisms can then use. A banana slug eats forest floor material, a fungus releases chemicals to break down logs, and a millipede eats fallen pine needles and leaves.

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Decomposers like fungi and slime molds break down dead and waste material into smaller pieces, releasing minerals and nutrients back into the soil. These decomposers help recycle nutrients by breaking down material that living organisms can then use. A banana slug eats forest floor material, a fungus releases chemicals to break down logs, and a millipede eats fallen pine needles and leaves.

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Use with Chapter 5, pp. 148–149

How are minerals and


nutrients recycled?
Decomposers eat waste and dead matter. They break material into
smaller pieces and put it back into the soil. Living organisms can
then use the minerals and nutrients from waste. Decomposers help
recycle minerals and nutrients.

Slime mold decomposes


A banana slug matter and may eat
eats material on bacteria as well.
the forest floor.
A fungus releases The millipede eats pine
special chemicals to break needles and other leaves that
down a log. The fungus have fallen from trees.
soaks up materials from the
log to use as food.

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Grade 5 • Life Science

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