11. What will happen if decomposers become extinct?
A. Water cycle will most likely shut down.
B. There will be permanent fertilizers of the soil.
C. Plants will not anymore be absorbing nutrients from the soil.
D. Organic nutrients from dead organisms will not return into the soil
Answers & Comments
•Wastes and the remains of dead organisms would pile up and the nutrients within the waste and dead organisms would not be released back into the ecosystem. Producers would not have enough nutrients. Every producer would die.
either
C or D