Decay

Question 1

What do plants require from the soil for healthy growth?

Answer 1

Nutrients

Question 2

What type of nutrients are in soil?

Answer 2

Nitrates and minerals

Question 3

How do animals get nutrients in a food chain case?

Answer 3

because they eat plants which contain nutrients or eating other animals that have eaten plants.

Question 4

What does decay result in?

Answer 4

Lots of living things that will eat the bodies of the plants and the animals

Question 5

Name 3 living things that will eat the dead bodies of plants and animals?

Answer 5

1) Fungi
2) Magots
3) Earth worms

Question 6

What is the point in decay?

Answer 6

It is to give the nutrients that the dead animal or plant had back into the soil

Question 7

What is compost?

Answer 7

It is plant material that has been broken down by microbes and contains all the important nutrients that plants need.

Question 8

What does compost do?

Answer 8

It encourages the growth of plants that you might want to grow for yourself.

Question 9

Name 3 factors that will increase the rate of decay?

Answer 9

1) Plenty of oxygen
2) Warm temperature
3) Have moisture

Question 10

Due to oxygen passing through the holes in the compost crate what does this mean for microbes?

Answer 10

They can use this oxygen for respiration

Question 11

Due to respiration producing heat why is this an advantage?

Answer 11

Because it keeps it moist