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if all of the decomposers were gone everything would die. because the nutrients would make it so there would not be nutrients in soil. Which would make the plants die witch would be nothing for the primary consumers to eat, so they would die. everything else would die because they have nothing to eat.

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evidence
this is because with no decomposers nothing would be possible to break down and eventually all things in the ecosystem would die.
reasoning
This is because plants would have much more trouble growing, creating a domino effect in the food chain. If decomposers s die out then so do producers and consumers.

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If there were no decomposers on earth then would be a lot of carcasses and it would be very difficult for plants to get the nutrients they need and it would ruin the foodchain.

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If there were no decomposers there would be carcasses everywhere. Decomposers decompose of waste.

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Claim: If there are no decomposers most animals would be dead.
Evidence: Plants could die because of the different parts of the soil. An example is nutrients. Also our Eco columms.
Reasoning: Decomposers

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Claim: If there are no decomposers a lot of animals would be dead.
Evidence: Plants will die because of the nutrients in the soil.
Reasoning: Decomposers break down parts on the food web and they get nutrients to give the nutrients to the other parts of the food web.

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Claim: If decomposers no longer were a thing,  the amount of organic waste and dead bodies would pile up, and cycles of the earth would be screwed up.
Evidence:
1. Nitrogen Cycle Game
2. Eco-Columns
3. The science behind composting
Reasoning: As we know from the science behind composting and our group's eco-column (which we had a worm for but it got delivered dead), decomposition does work without the help of decomposers/animals, but it takes way longer. At the rate of time it takes to decompose without the help of an animal, there would already be too much organic waste and it would start to pile up. Since not as much nitrogen is being returned to the soil, the cycle is being messed up, because then new plants cannot absorb the nitrogen atoms, as I could tell from the Nitrogen Cycle Game.

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Claim: Without decomposers the food chain will be ruined and everything will pile up.
Evidence.
1. Without plants primary consumers will die.
2. Nitrogen cycle game.
3. Plants will die because of the lack of nutrients in the soil.
Reasoning: Without decomposers the food chain is ruined because the plants are gone and carcasses and leafs and that other things pile up because there is nothing to break it down.

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Claim: If there weren't any decomposers on Earth, then energy and nutrients would have a much harder time cycling through an ecosystem.
Evidence:
1. Nitrogen remains inside of dead animals until said deceased animal is either consumed or decomposed.
2. Energy will also do the same thing as nitrogen will.
3. Nutrients wouldn't make it into the soil, which would make it harder for plants to grow.
Reasoning: Nitrogen doesn't make its way into other organisms unless it is decomposed. This means that without decomposers, nitrogen may remain inside an animal carcass for a long time. The same goes for energy. Energy would have a harder time cycling through an ecosystem without decomposers. Also, without decomposers, nutrients would be less likely to end up in the soil, and make it so that plants will be unable to absorb those nutrients.

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Claim: There earth would be a wasteland without decomposers
Evidence:
1. Decomposers recycle all the matter
2. There would be no plants because decomposers make the soil nutrient
3. Humans and Animals wouldnt exist because they couldnt eat plants.
Reasoning:
Plant wouldn't be existent. Therefore, Primary consumers would be non existent. Therefore animals who eat primary consumers would be non existent. And the world would be a wasteland literally. There would be no decomposers to break down waste

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Claim: If there are no decomposers most animals would be dead.
Evidence: Some animals reali  on decomposers to get there food and if one out then the food chain is broke.
Reasoning: Plants would die because the nutrince of soil is so low.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms.
Evidence: If there was no rich soil from dead animals and plants lying on the ground then plants could not grow to its fullest extent and the food web will start to decay. We can use the nitrogen cycle game to prove this as well if one of the small things in the cycle goes away them the whole thing will not work as well. We can see it in the eco column to, the middle layer is the decaying layer and it makes the whole thing go round.
Reasoning: My reasoning for this is that when decomposers return their nutrients into the atmosphere they are decomposing. With out them there would be carcasses laying around piling up on Earth, as well as disrupting the whole entire food web.

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Claim: if there werent any decomposers things will pile up and plants will get less nutrients.
Reasoning:
1. Plants will die because of the lack of nutrients in the soil.
2. Without plants the primary consumers will die becasue they wouldnt have anything to eat then the secondary and then on.
3. nitrog

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Claim: If there were no decomposers there would be nothing to break down dead animals and release the nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore having carcasses pile up on the ground, and destroying the food web.
Evidence:
1. Leaves rotting and changing color in the Eco column.
2. Nitro cycle game.
3. Nutrients are crucial to the growth of living organisms. So when living things die decomposers use the nutrients and gasses so they can be used by other plants.
Reasoning: If there were no decomposers than dead animals would build up, and plants wouldn't get there nutrients they need. In affect of this primary consumers wouldn't get food they need. The only organism who could survive are the scavengers.

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Claim
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence
* Plants would die because there’s no nutrient in the soil
* the nitrogen cycle game
* decomposers keep the food chain alive
Reasoning
If decomposers did exist there would be a lot of nitrogen atoms and nothing to break it down. Then there would be a lot of decay.

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claim: without decomposers  many things would not be able to break down. evidence:  one plants get their nutrients from the ground, two nitrogen cycle game, three the food chain would not be a circle. reasoning: if their were no decomposers animals would pile up quickly and the decomposers break down the animals to provide nutrients for the plants so the can grow.

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Claim:
without decomposers a lot of things would not be able to break down to get nutrients that the food chain needs.
Evidence:
Dead plants and animals need to get broken down into the earth to get their nutrients. And the dead plants and animal's nutrients needs to get put back into the earth.
Reasoning:
Decomposers break down some parts on the food web and they get nutrients to give the nutrients to the other parts of the food web.

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Claim: If there were no decomposer the ground would never grow or anything.

Evidence: Decomposers are very important without them nothing goes around all found webs are destroyed all dead animals are just staying on top the ground. Not being decomposed.

Reasoning: Without our mushrooms and more. Carcasses and way more would pile up. Not go in the earth soil and totally ruin the ground and way more soil doesn't get nutrients then it just becomes dead, after all this happens all life might die.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers in the food chain the world would be full of dead plants and animals. The food chain would also be thrown off balance and the nutrients in the dead animals would stay stuck in the soil, or wherever the animal/plant they were in died.
Evidence:
1.  Animals and plants need nutrients and if the nutrients stays stuck in the dead animals then it won't be reused.
2. Nutrients are crucial to animals and plants survival.
3. Nitrogen cycle game
Reasoning:
First the nutrients will be stuck in the dead animal and plants carcrass. Next, if the nutrients don't continue to cycle through the food chain then the animals that need them will die, messing up the food chain. Finally during the nitrogen cycle game we saw repeatedly that decomposers are relied upon hugely in the food chain. So in conclusion life on Earth without decomposers would be difficult and many things would be messed up.

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Claim: If we didn't have decomposers there wouldn't be a food chain.
Evidence:
1. The plants would all die because there would be no nutrients in the soil.
2. Without the plants the primary animals in the food chain would have nothing to eat.
3. The decomposers make all the nutrients in the soil from the dead plants and animals but when all the things are dying because there are no decomposers there will be nothing to make the dead plants and animals into nutrients.

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Claim: If we didn't have decomposers soil wouldn't have nutrients so plants couldn't grow. And if plants couldn't grow the air would be all carbon dioxide and it would disrupt carbon cycle.
Evidence: Eco column, nitrogen cycle, and my elementary school knowledge.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, soil wouldn't get the nutrience it needs for plants to be able to grow, and the producers food source would disappear so the secondary consumers would die off and so would the apex predators.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
If there were no decomposition layer in our eco-columns, the dead leaves and banana peals would just stay there and rot with out getting turned into nutrience so that it can be used again. If the decomposition slide in the Nitrogen Cycle game disappeared, if you end up as a dead plant or animal you would have to be eaten but parts of you would stay. You would not be able to move to soil or live plant. The quote means that when things are decomposed, they can be used again for another plant's survival. Whether they turn into gas or nutrience they can be used again for another plant.

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Claim: Without decomposers nothing would be able to break down nutrients for the food chain. This would affect the entire food chain.

Evidence:

1. Decomposers break down organic matter into nutrients
2. Decmoposers play a huge role in helping producers grow.
3. Nitrogen Cycle Game

Reasoning:
Without decomposers  nothing would be able to break down nutrients for the food chain. This would affect the entire food chain.  Decomposers break down dead animals and plants, turning them into nutrients for the soil. If they didn't exist then dead plants and animals would just pile up more and more because nothing is breaking them down and nothing is giving soil nutrients. Giving the soil nutrients helps producers grow so that the entire food chain can work ,starting with the consumers eating the producers. Like in the Nitrogen Cell Game it showed that as a nitrogen atom you get decomposed a ton and it happens a lot in the food chain. It helped plants grow and break down so it keeps the entire food chain going. To conclude if we didn't have decomposers the entire food chain would be affect and plants and animals wouldn't be able to survive.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers all of the dead animals would just be laying around the earth since there would be nothing to break them down.
Evidence:
1. Decomposers break down dead bodies and turn them into nutrients and gases.
2. In the nitrogen cycle game the decomposer always broke down dead plants and animals.
3. All the old stuff is broken down in the eco-column.
Reasoning:
With no decomposers the whole ecosystem will struggle because nothing will get the nutrients from dead animals. Without that then plants will struggle then all the other animals after that will struggle.

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Without decomposers the world would be a mess of rotting corpses. If there were no decomposers then each animal, and plant bodies would just sit there and rot like a landfill. Our eco columns would also be missing a very important piece that would hurt and damage every level and thing in the environment. The last piece of evidence I want to say would be that it would disrupt the nitrogen cycle, and they also help the soil, but without it our world would be drastically different.

Evidence: Eco column, nitrogen cycle, and my elementary school knowledge.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, it would destroy the food web, causing unbalance.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-leaves rotting and being broken down, turning brown
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
Decomposers break down parts of the food web and make nutrients for other parts of the food web. One example of this is in the eco-collum, where the leaves slowly decompose and make nutrients for the soil. The soil then gives the nutrients to producers, and it is spread through the food web. Nutrients are crucial to the food web, and if they are eliminated, then the food chain will slowly crumble. Since the energy will stop coming from producers. In conclusion, the food chain would slowly break away.

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Claim:
Without decomposers, the soil would not be able to get the nutrients that they need. Then the plants would not get any nutrient. This would be catastrophic for the Eco system.

Evidence:
1) The game we played.
2) The Eco-Column
3) Nonliving matter has nutrients that are important for living things to grow

Reasoning:
Decomposers break down dead organisms to nutrients and gases. This helps plants grow.

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Claim: Without decomposers, the food chain wouldn't be able to function.
Evidence:
1. Decomposers break down dead plant and animal matter and return the nutrients to the environment.
2. The nutrients trapped inside dead plants and animals need decomposers to let them back into the soil and atmosphere.
3. The decomposers are needed in order to get rid of dead organic matter.
Reasoning: If there were no decomposers, dead animals and plants would pile up and the ecosystem would quickly run out of nutrients. Plants wouldn't be able to grow, and then herbivores would die, and the ones who ate the herbivores would also starve. The only ones who might be able to survive are the scavengers.

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 decomposers.
Matter is any object that takes up space and has mass. Everything around us is matter, including atoms. Matter is used to build bodies and organisms through the process of growth. About 96 percent of the human body is made of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms. When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants. Plants absorb the nutrients through their roots. Nutrients are then passed to primary consumers when they eat the plants and to higher level consumers when they eat the lower level consumers.
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If there were no decomposers, the nutrients in the soil would all be depleted, producers would not be able to use these , and the whole food web/chain would be affected in a negative way.
Plants use the nutrients to make themselves rich in nutrients, and then they are consumed by the consumers, who use those nutrients for energy, and it continues upward to the secondary consumers and the apex predators. Nutrients are key to the growth and life of plants and animals alike, and if they could not use these, there would be a major disruption in the ecosystem. Decomposers put these nutrients back into the ground and soil after an organism dies for reuse, and if there were no decomposers, this would not happen.
So, if there were no decomposers, the plants and animals will not have any nutrients. There would also be a pile up of carcasses and organisms would not have the recycled nutrients they need. That is why decomposers are so important to the ecosystem.

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If there were no decomposers, the cycle of energy would be messed up. Without decomposer, none of the dead organisms would be broken down. And if none of the organisms are broken down, no nutrients would go back to the producers. The nutrients a would slowly become less and less. Since nutrients mean energy, and you need energy to live, if there were no decomposers, all living organisms would die out.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, live organisms  wouldn't be able to get enough nutrients to survive

Evidence.
1. Plants get their nutrients from the ground
2. Decomposers make nutrients by breaking down dead things
3. All living things need nutrients to survive

Reasoning
Decomposers break down dead organisms, and make nutrient rich soil, which plants then use to grow. If there were no decomposers, all of the nutrients in dead organisms would be unusable. Plants would no longer be able to get nutrients, causing a chain reaction in the food web.

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Claim -
If there were no decomposers on earth there would be dead stuff everywhere.
Evidence -
Decomposers decompose dead things. Such as dead leaves and animals. There would be that everywhere.
Reasoning -
You may say, "Well, we eat dead animals so we're decomposers." Well, you are right. We could be considered decomposers because we do eat dead things. Leaves in salad. My group is growing kale in the top section of our ecosystem so we could be eating that and putting it in salad. Those leaves would be dead. Say what you will.

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CLAIM - If there were no decomposers in this world everything would build up into big organisms and then they wont be broken down into nutrients  and the metabolism of life will slow down in time.

EVIDENCE -
1.  Producers need nutrience from the soil to grow and flourish .
2. decomposers are what keep the food web cycling.
3. decomposers are what keeps the  food web/chain going on and cycling.

REASONING -
Because decomposeres break down, dead animals get rid of the dead carcasses. Also, in the processes of doing that they are giving nutrients to the soil wich is very important for plants to grow.

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Claim:If there was no decomposers then everyone would starve

Evidence:
1.The food chain would not be a circle but yet a line
2. everything would be broken down eventually by entropy

Reasoning:
since the food chain is line so there would be a lot less plants leading humanity to starve

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Claim: If decomposers didn't exist ever, the metabolism of life would slow down, and remain as simple moss or lichen.

Evidence:
1. Everything would be broken down eventually by entropy.
2. Entropy is extremely slow and does not give much energy.
3.  Before one of the first fungi, Prototaxities, all was moss, which was, and had been flourishing for millions of years, despite having no decomposer.

Reasoning:

If there were no decomposers, things would still return to the soil via entropy, but in a process of over millions of years, therefore elongating the cycle by a large factor. This will be too little nutrients and energy at a time for most forms of life today, and only will be suitable for life as complex as moss. However, I am certain that moss will survive, as it did without Prototaxities.

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Claim:

If there were no decomposers waste and matter would build up. Dead organisms won’t be broken down and they won’t be turned into nutrients.

Evidence:

1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down

2. Nitrogen Cycle Game

3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:

This is why the cycle of matter is so important for an ecosystem. In ecosystems matter is always moving, but without decomposers it stops. If decomposers didn’t break down the dead organisms or other matter, that matter would build up. For example lemon peels would rot instead of breaking down into good soil. The nitrogen game shows how the decomposers help other organisms. If we didn’t have them we wouldn’t have good fertile soil and plants would struggle to grow which makes less food for consumers. Lastly, this quote, “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.” It explains how the decomposer moves through cycles. If this did not happen there would be no nutrients in the soil and the organisms would die.This is why decomposers are so important for the ecosystem.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break down dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Producers need decomposers to break down dead organisms into soil, in order for the producers to get the nutrients from the soil they need.

2. Nitrogen Cycle Game.

3. Decomposers are what keeps the food chain cycling.

Reasoning:
We need decomposers to break down all of the dead plants and animals into nutrients, in order to give the producers the nutrients they need to make their own food. Overall, decomposers give plants a way to survive and keep our ecosystem going.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers dead organisms would just stay there forever and never decompose and many cycles wouldn't function.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.Decomposers are a crucial factor in food chains and webs

Reasoning:
We normally overlook what decomposers do for food cycles but there a huge part. In fact food chains would suffer the dead animals wouldn't decompose fast enough. In the nitrogen cycle game decomposers help nutrients transfer from one place to another. Without decomposers the transferring of nutrients would be slowed resulting in the death of organisms and animals . The Eco-columns are a great example of decomposing and its affect on other Eco-systems as it shows the process of decomposing. The world without decomposers would be so awful and full of dead organisms.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Producers need nutrience from the soil to grow and flourish

2.If there are no plats (producers), then primary consumers will have nothing to consume, and the whole food web will colapse

3. Nitrogen cycle game

4. decomposers are what keeps the  food web/chain going on and cycling

Reasoning:

Decomposers obtain food by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or other organic wastes.

If these where gone, then the food chain/web would stop cycling, and the whole ecosystem would stop. Producers are the beginning of the food web. Producers are plants that mainly rely on the energy from the sun, and the nutrience from the soil to grow. The nutrience in the soil comes from the decomposers. Decomposers get nutrients and energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal wastes. Through this process, decomposers release nutrients, such as carbon and nitrogen, back into the enviornment. These nutrients are recycled back into the ecosystem so that the producers can use them. If these were gone than the consumers and others that come after would have nothing to eat.

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What would happen if their were no decomposers. Their would be any thing to break apart dead organizem. witch would fill the earth. it would make animals die.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break down dead organisms and there would be dead carcasses everywhere and nothing would recycle the dead matter back to the earth and the food web would get messed up.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

Reasoning: Since decomposers break down dead organisms to make nutrients and since nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms, if there were no decomposers, organisms would not be able to get their nutrients and the food web would get destroyed. Since the lemon rots and gets broken down, then the nutrients will be available to other living organisms. According to the nitrogen cycle game, nutrients either go to the soil or are absorbed by the roots of plants. If decomposers were non-existent, then plants would not be able to get the nutrients they need and it would also mess up the whole nitrogen cycle.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

Reasoning
We need  decomposers to break down all are dead plants and recyclethem into nutrients.

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claim:
if there were no decomposers there would just be dead carcasses everywhere and it would mess up the whole food cycle

evidence:
1.decomposers break down dead plants and animals
2.decomposers are what keep the food web cyclling
3.the nutrients that decomposers break down are crucial for plants to grow

reasoning:
Since decomposeres break down dead animals that gets rid of the dead carcasses and also in the procces of doing that they are giving nutrients to the soil wich is vital for plants to grow.

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Claim:

If there were no decomposers, nothing would be there to decompose the dead animal and plant matter. This means that all of this matter would be on the Earth and would not go away.
Evidence:

1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down

2. Nitrogen Cycle Game

3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.
Reasoning:

If there are no decomposers, dead animals and plants would never go away because nothing would be there to decompose it. For example, bread would never get moldy so it would be there forever.  They break down the plant and animal matter which goes into the soil. This matter helps keep the soil fertile. Producers need the nutrients from the soil to grow. Humans and other consumers need the oxygen that the producers create. If the producers cannot create oxygen then there would be no food chain. Decomposers are an essential part of life and we need them to live. If there are no decomposers the dead animal and plant matter would stay on the Earth forever. We need decomposers to break this matter down.

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Claim: If there was no decomposers there wouldn't be anything to break down dead bodies and nonliving things. These things that usually are broken down would just be piled up on Earth.

Evidence: decomposers break down things into smaller nutrients and fertilizer as we saw in the nitrogen cycle game.

Reasoning: with out decomposers what will break down dead animals and waste.

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Claim: If there weren't decomposers, the nutrients that the plants need would not be int the soil, and then the rest of the food chain will die.

Evidence:
1. Plants need nutrients from the soil
2. Primary consumers will die because there will be no plants
3. Secondary and Tertiary consumers will have no animals to eat
4. The entire ecosystem will colapse

Reasoning:

With no decomposers, nutrients will not be recycled. With no nutrients in the soil plants will die. With plants dead, Primary consumers will not have food and will die. With no Primary consumers, Secondary consumers and Tertiary consumers will have no food and will die. With no decomposers, the whole ecosystem will colapse.

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If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

Reasoning: if there were no decomposers the plants, animals, and nonliving matter wouldn't be cycled through the ecosystem and there wouldn't be much of a food chain because the food wouldn't grow, the animals wouldn't eat the food and the whole chain would be messed up.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere. This would ruin the food chain.
Evidence:
In the Eco column the lemon rotting wouldn't be broken down.
In our nitrogen cycle game
“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms".
Reasoning:
With no decomposers nutrients will not be recycled. Then with no nutrients in the soil the plants will eventually die. Which then causes animals that eat plants to die and then the primary consumers will die and the whole food chain would end.

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Claim: Every living thing on Earth would die if there were no decomposers would pile up carcusses and the nutrients wouldn't go back into the system.

1. Eco-column would die ad be broken down
2: Nitrogen cycle game
3: “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: The cycle of earth depends on all parts of the ecosystem

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Claim: if there weren't any decomposers the world would not live.

Evidence:
Eco Column
Nitrogen Cycle Game
“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
Why are decomposers needed for the earth to live and that is because if their is no soil because that's what the decomposers make, then their is no plants and if their is no plants their is no animals and if their are no plants or animals their is no more humans and etc.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
-Decompsers break down all dead organisms
-they keep the soil fertile
-they help us farm crops

Reasoning:
When an animal dies a decomposer will come and break it down in its body. The decompser then lets out its waste which helps the soil become fertile. This will keep many plants alive like our crops. Without plants no animals will have food to eat leading to the downfall of Earth. Not only do the animals get no food when the plants die, but also their is no oxygen in the air. This is why decomposers are so important to Earth.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, then plants and animals wouldn't grow as well, as they do.

Evidence: 1. Decomposers break down organisms, and then return the nutrients back to the soil. Without nutrients in the soil, then the plants wouldn't grow as well as they do.
2. Decomposers are a great and important part of our every ecosystem.
3. It is like in a food chain, if you remove one organism, the whole chain is affected. All organisms depend on all organisms.

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Claim-> If decomposers did not exist on Earth, then every dead organism would never have been broken down, and instead they would continue to pile up, and nutrients that entered the organisms' bodies would never go back into the environment.

Evidence-> Decomposers play the vital role in any ecosystem of breaking down dead organisms, and releasing the nutrients to the soil in order for plants to begin the cycle once again.
1. Eco-Column- Dead leaves were broken down, and returned to the soil.
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game- Our atom cycled through many slides, and passed through the decomposer slide many times.
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning-> Decomposers connect the cycle of matter by not only breaking down the dead organisms, but returning the nutrients to the soil so that plants can once again feed on them. This cycle is extremely important because this is how every living thing obtains energy and the resources to live.

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Claim: If the weren't any decomposers on our planet then, then nothing would break down the dead organism and continue the nitrogen cycle.

Evidence: Decomposers break down the nutrients nonliving matter that are crucial to the to the growth of living organisms. After they break down the nutrients and gasses, they  give the resources to other organisms like fertilizer for plants.

Reasoning: They are very crucial to the cycles of life on Earth because if decomposers were to go extinct, then the food chain and many organisms would go extinct as well because all thing in the food chain matter and if you take away the decomposers, then the nitrogen cycle would stop because there wouldn't be an organism that would break down dead plants and animals to carry on nitrogen and other plants and animals would eventually die because all living things need nitrogen to survive.

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Claim: If decomposers did not exist then there would be nothing to break down dead organisms. There would also be more and more extinct species.

Evidence:
1.  Decomposers break down dead organisms
2. The nitrogen cycle game
3.  The decomposed nutrients from  the animals go back into the soil.

Reasoning: The decomposers break down dead plants and animals meaning, if they were to go extinct there would be dead bodies everywhere. The nutrients needed from breaking down dead organisms will leave soil dry corrupting the whole food web. So the whole food web would be ruined and all the bodies of dead plants and animals would pile super high.

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If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: If there were no decompsers dead organisms would be everywhere because we need the decomposers to break down the carcasses. This would also ruin the food chains because plants and other organisms need the nutrients from broken down carcasses or else the whole food chain would go to chaos. We need decomposers more than we think and it would be a tragedy if we did not have them in our world.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. In my eco column the decomposers break down dead organisms and make the soil better for plants.
2. Decomposes are needed for the nitrogen atom to move in the nitrogen cycle.
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: If there were no decomposers there would be nothing to decompose dead animals and other dead things. The world would be covered in dead things and different cycles would collapse without decomposers. The soil which is rich because of decomposers would make it hard for plants to grow so other animals wouldn't get energy to live. They are also important in the Nitrogen cycle as well. Without decomposers the world would fall apart.

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Claim: If decomposers didn't exist,  there wouldn't be any animals to break apart dead organisms and put the nutrients into the soil

Evidence:
-Without the decomposers there would be waste just sitting on the Earth with no way to break it down.
-When an animal dies,  the decomposers break down the animal and the nutrients from that animal go back into the soil to be reused once again.
--In the nitrogen cycle game, it shows that the organisms in an ecosystem must be decomposed in order for the cycle to start over again and that every living thing has a role in the ecosystem.
-They return nutrients into the soil and air for other living things to use later on
-“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: If there were no decomposers left on Earth, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere. Every living thing contains nutrients that must be broken down at some point, so that the ecosystem can continue on. Without the nutrients that is inside of these living organisms, there would be nothing to help substain the ecosystem. This is why decomposers are really important to helping the ecosystem survive.

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Claim: All the things that live on earth would die and pile up as carcusses and the nutrients wouldn't get back into the system killing all life on Earth.
Evidence:
1. Decomposers decompose dead things
2. They return nutrients into the soil and air for other living things to use later on
3. "Matter is any object that takes up space and has mass. Everything around us is matter, including atoms. Matter is used to build bodies and organisms through the process of growth. About 96 percent of the human body is made of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms. When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants. Plants absorb the nutrients through their roots. Nutrients are then passed to primary consumers when they eat the plants and to higher level consumers when they eat the lower level consumers."
Reasoning:
This shows that the dead things would pile up with no where to go and not give the nutrients to future living things which would make it so no one can get enough nutrients to survive and everything would die.

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Claim: If there weren't any decomposers, there would be dead things everywhere, and lots of nutrients would be wasted.

Evidence: Decomposers break down dead organic material and cycle the nutrients back into the Earth to be reused. Without them, all the nutrients would be wasted and all the dead things would pile up. Also, in the Nitrogen Cycle Game, we passed through the stage, dead plants and animals, multiple times. That is another way to prove that there are many things that decomposers break down.

Reasoning: As you can see, decomposers do a lot to recycle nutrients into the Earth. Without them, there would be dead things all around and many nutrients would go to waste.

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Claim: if their were no decomposers,  there would be dead bodies everywhere.

Evidence: Decomposers break down dead plants and animals into organic matter so it can be used for plants and fertilizer.

Reasoning: The cycle of earth depends on decomposers and without them, there would be dead animals on the planet. This means decomposers can't break them down into fertilizer and minerals for new plants to grow. Animals that eat plants wouldn't have anything to eat, and animals that eat those plant eating animals wouldn't have anything to eat either.

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Claim:
If there where no decompress then the world would be covered in dead animal and plant carcess.
Evidence and reasoning: When an animal dies it would usual decompose in to a natural habitat and start a new life. But without decomposers the animals would just lay there dead. The food web out also be messed up if there were no decomposers. Because if you take one secpies out of the food we there would be a huge ripple affect. Eventually all of the plants would die and there would be no more things for the consumers to eat.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers on earth, most plants and animals would die and the only organisms left would be microscopic.

Evidence: Dead plants and animal's nutrients are processed by
decomposers to continue most of the cycles of the earth and cannot be processed by anything else.

Reasoning: All cycles of the cycles of the earth are vital to every ecosystem, and decomposers are vital to both the nitrogen and carbon cycles, without the nitrogen cycle almost every plant wouldn't have enough nutrients to survive and would die, which would cause the majority of animals to die out as well.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers in the earth, the cycle would die and a lot of plants and animals would go extinct and die.

Evidence:
If this did happen, nothing would be able to decompose. For example, a lot of waste and remains of dead animals would all build up and all this wouldn't be released into the ecosystem again. Many organisms would not exist and they would all die out because decomposers play a big roll in the chain and if they don't do their job or can't, then it would ruin other animals lives as well.

Reasoning:
All of these chains are very important aspects in the world. If one thing, such as decomposers die out or stop doing their jobs, these chains would die out which means a lot of animals would go extinct. This is not good for the earth. Therefore, if decomposers died, we would have almost no plants or animals in the world and our earth could easily come to an end. These aspects are very important.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, all plants and animals would go extinct.
Evidence:
1. Decomposers break down dead organic material and recycle the nutrients.
2. In the nitrogen cycle game, decomposers were needed in order for the nitrogen atom to move on in the cycle.
3. The food chain relies on producers.
Reasoning:
Without decomposers, the nitrogen cycle would be stopped and nutrients with dead matter wouldn't seep into the soil. Eventually, all of the plants/ producers which are needed would die without nutrients, then the consumers and all the way up the food chain until there was nothing left.

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Claim:
If the world had no decomposers,  the food chain would not work anymore,  the nitrogen won't return to the soil/ground which means that there would be piles of dead animals/plants, and finally there would be more nitrogen in the dead animals/plants then in the ground
Evidence:
Nothing would be able to decompose anymore and since the nitrogen won't return back to the ground/soil, plants and other animals won't be able to survive. Also when we did the Nitrogen Cycle activity, every time the plant/animal would die the decomposers would put the nitrogen back into the soil but if there were not decomposers, then there would be too much nitrogen in the air. Many organisms/living things would also die quickly.
Reasoning:
With no decomposers, the food chain would not work and the problem would ripple to one animal to another animal and so on. Without being able to get the nutrients/nitrogen back into the ground the Earth would start to die and the Earth would soon run out of resources.

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without decomposers their would be dead organsims everywhere since nothing would break them down. which would get in the way of other organisms.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers on Earth, there would be nothing and none to break down dead animals and bacteria to create nutrients.

Evidence:
Imagine what would happen if there were no decomposers. 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. Essentially, many organisms could not exist.

Reasoning: If there were no decomposers left on Earth, there would be nothing to break apart dead organism and return their nutrients into the atmosphere. Producers would not have enough nutrients, so that would result in many organism not being able to exist.

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claim: if decomposers didn't exist,  there wouldn't be any animals to break apart dead organisms and put the nutrients into the soil
evidence: when an animal dies,  the decomposers break down the animal and the nutrients from that animal go beck into the soil to be reused again
reasoning: every atom is essential to the food web because they make plants live so animals can eat the plants and so on. If the decomposers didn't exist, no one would be able to do that and all of the atoms wouldn't be able to get reused.

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Claim: If decomposers didn't exist, most organisms would go extinct.
Evidence and Reasoning: When an animal dies, it is broken down by decomposers and it's nutrients are released back into the ecosystem.  However, if there were no decomposers, the dead animals and plants would pile up.  Consequently, their nutrients would never be released back into the ecosystem. Without nutrients being sent back into the ecosystem, plants would not have enough nutrients to reproduce and grow meaning the ecosystem would collapse. This is decomposers are very important.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers life it's self would be completley diffrent.
Evidnce:
In the nitrogen cycle game we played the decomposers were a huge part of it.
I tried to do the game again but each time I got a decomposer I'd reroll, by doing this it showed that decomposers are very needed in the food chain.
Reasoning:
The decomposers do alot for the  Earth because if decomposers  were to go extinct, it would mess up the whole process of the food chain and either end up having too much food or not enough food. By having them out of the food chain it'd cause the whole food chain to fall, leaving many animals and plants dead to rot and just sit there, wasting energy. Without deccomposers there wouldn't really be a food chain. there would be alot of wasted energy. Eventhough decomposers don't seem like much they pack a punch.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers,
there would be dead organisms lying around and the nutrients wouldn't be reused.
Evidence :
1. The nitrogen cycle game shows that decomposers are important to the environment to decompose dead carcasses so the nutrients could be reused again in the cycle.
2. Eco-Column fish rotting and being decomposed to give nutrients to the soil for the grass to grow.

Reasoning :
With no decomposers, there would be waste piling up and everything would eventually die because there is nothing to decompose the dead organisms to reuse the nutrients. With out being able to reuse nutrients, eventually Earth would run out of resources and organisms would die.

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Claim: 
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

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Claim:
Decomposers are very important to the earth because without them there would be nothing to clean up the dead animals would stack up on the surface of the earth therefore it would be unpalatable.
Evidence:
In the nitrogen cycle game it shows that decomposers are one of the most important parts to a food chain.
Nutrients are non living matter and these nutrients are very important of the growing and life of other living organisms.
when living organisms die decomposers break them down and turn them into nutrients and different types of gases that used for different things like living organisms like plants.
Reasoning:
If the world didn't have decomposers, different dead things like plants and animals would fill the earths surface with corps and stop the Eco system from being balanced and moving through a cycle of things and stuff to make earth habitable and provide for living plants and animals. But when they do there job they make earth a much better place and help the Eco systems and all the living things on plant Earth.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, nothing would be there to decompose the dead animal and plant matter. This means that all of this matter would be on the Earth and would not go away.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
If there are no decomposers, dead animals and plants would never go away because nothing would be there to decompose it. For example, bread would never get moldy so it would be there forever.  They break down the plant and animal matter which goes into the soil. This matter helps keep the soil fertile. Producers need the nutrients from the soil to grow. Humans and other consumers need the oxygen that the producers create. If the producers cannot create oxygen then there would be no food chain. Decomposers are an essential part of life and we need them to live. If there are no decomposers the dead animal and plant matter would stay on the Earth forever. We need decomposers to break this matter down.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
- Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
- Nitrogen Cycle Game
- “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
The cycles of matter are essential for life on Earth for many reasons. In our nitrogen cycle game, we saw that every time an organism died, it would be broken apart by the decomposers, where the nutrients/atoms would be released to continue this cycle. If this didn't happen, then other living things such as plants would not be able to get the nutrients they need, causing them to die. Without plants creating oxygen, hundreds of animals including humans would die.
Essentially, many organisms would not be able to exist without decomposers.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers then the world would be un inhabitable. No one could survive. It would mass up the cycle of life, and would leave many animals dead.

evidence: The nitrogen cycle game shows that decomposers are one of the most important steps of the nitrogen chain. In the eco column if nothing was there to break stuff down, it would totally fail, so that means decomposers are needed for nature and wildlife. When organisms die, decomposers break them down, but with no decomposers there would be lots of dead pants and animals, which isn't good for the environment.

reasoning: The food chain, nitrogen chain, and many other chains are important to keep a clean healthy world. But without them, who knows what would happen. A mass of population would die, and the human race would probably go extinct. People don't realize it, but decomposers are the main thing keeping these chains stable and alive.

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If decomposers didn't exist, the world would not have the cycles it has and would be inhabitable.

Evidence
- When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.

-Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms

-Matter is used to build bodies and organisms through the process of growth.
Reasoning
As we know we need decomposers. They break down dead organisms back into nutrients. Slowly the nutrients will start to exit the cycle and stop going to the producers. This causes a chain reaction where everything dies, rendering this planet inhabitable by us humans.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers in the world then there would be a huge pile of dead organisms because nothing would be able to break it down.
Evidence:
We learned that an ecosystem is vary fragile and if one part of the ecosystem was messed up then it would effect the entire ecosystem.
Also the decomposers help break down the material from a dead animal and put its nutrients into the soil to help other plants grow and if we didn't have that then the plants might have a harder time to grow.
Reasoning:
Since there are no decomposers all of the nutrients of dead plants and animals would no be recycled into the environment and there would be a lot more dead plants and animals just laying on the ground.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. The Nitrogen Cycle game shows that every living (and even nonliving) thing has a part in an ecosystem.
2. In an Eco-Column, the decomposers decompose the decaying organic material from the compost, which feeds the fish.
3. Humans consume a lot of food each year, all of which is some type of plant, animal, or comes from an animal
Reasoning
If there were no decomposers then that means that the amount of trash would increse because there is nothing to help them decompose.
The ecosystem needs all parts to help the other organisums survive get nutrience and if they werent there the ecosystem would be gone.
And we need every partof the ecosystem to survive. If a tree is chopped doen, that is less oxygen to breth in.

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Claim: Without decomposers on Earth, nothing would be able to break down waste into nutrients and the dead organisms and waste would pile up.

Evidence:
-While playing the "Nitrogen Cycle game" I (the nitrogen atom) got decomposed along with other waste.
-In my eco-column, the waste is being broken down by decomposers
-Other plants would have to rely on other sources for nutrients

Reasoning:
All cycles of matter are essential for life on Earth because in the food web if one thing goes missing, the whole chain is broken. This is the same thing with the decomposers. Without them, the soil doesn't get any nutrients. Without nutrients in the soil, plants can't thrive and grow. When this happens, all of the primary consumers don't have a food source. This keeps going to the top of the food chain. Without decomposers, the entire food chain is disrupted and all of the waste on Earth would be piled up.

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Claim- If decomposers didn't exist,  there  would be no decomposers to recycle dead animals.
Evidence-
-Cycles won't work
-dead animals and plants wouldn't be broken up
- Ecosystem would have to change their ways of life.
-Nitrogen cycle game
Reasoning-
The cycles of the Earth are a delicate balance. If you take one component out, the whole ecosystem is changed. For example, taking out decomposers would cause extra waste because no one would break up dead animals. Because of that, the nitrogen adoms the animal held would not return to the Earth, disrupting the cycle. With all points considered, decomposers are very important to ecosystems and removing one species changes the whole ecosystem.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to decompose the dead organisms.

Evidence:
-Decomposers are the ones that break down all of the dead animals and plants.
-Decomposers are some of the key players in cycles such as The Nitrogen Cycle, and the Carbon Cycle.
-Everything would get really stuffy, since there are extra organic matter laying around everywhere
-You know that bug you crushed last week? That'd still be there. (Even if you didn't crush any bugs)

Reasoning:
Decomposers are some of the key players in a bunch of different cycles that we need in order to live and survive. Also, without decomposers, there would be so many dead things everywhere. Like if someone were to step on a snail, and animal control didn't get to it first, it would still be there like two months on from that. Our streets would probably pretty clean, but in places that are unmanaged, like forests, and mountains, there would be dead matter everywhere, with nobody to clean it up.

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Claim
If there were no decomposers Then there would be a lot of dead animals lying on the ground. And the atoms in the bodies would nver return back into the cycle unless something eats it.

Evidence There would be a big part of the ecomsystem missing due to the lack nitergon. This would cause the whole ecosystem not to able to fuction because its missing 1/3 of its system.

Reasoning If there were no decomposers in the ecosystem, then there would be a lot of nitrogen atoms and nothing to break them down. As a result of this, there would be a lot decay and waste just laying around and nothing to consume or break it down.

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Claim:if there were not any decomposers nothing would  decaying or dying for natural recourses  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. ... Essentially, many organisms could not exist
Evidence:
1eco column lemons rotting and being broken down.
2nutrients that are not involved with matter.
3the nitrogen cycle game about matter.
Reasoning: Because the decomposers need to happen or life would not function itself with  out decaying of the dead or rotting the natural resources from that organism can't be provided to the ecosystem.

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Claim;
If decomposers did not exist, nothing would be broken down or decomposed.This also means that soil would most likely not be good because it would lack the nutrients for growing plants
Evidence:
-The main part of a decomposer's job is to break down the dead organisms  to make the soil rich
-There would be a lot of animal carcasses and dead plants littering everything which means more bugs
- Nutrients are important for the life of plants and animals and if the decomposers do not break it down, there is no nutrients

Reasoning:
Without decomposers, the world would die because there would be not way to get rid of the bodies or plant more food if the soil is bad.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers all the cycles would be affected.

Evidence:
1. Decomposers break down organic matter into nutrients for plants.
2. Nitrogen cycle.
3. Nutrients is crucial for the growth of plants.

Reasoning:
Without decomposers, there wouldn't be any nutrients in the soil. Without nutrients, plants can't grow. When there isn't any plants, the food chain starts to crumble. Decomposers are important for the other cycles too, because they revolve around the plants and animals. So decomposers would affect all of the cycles if they didn't exist.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, the soil would never regain nutrients. There would also be nothing that could break down dead plants and animals.
Evidence:
Nitrogen Cycle Game
"Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms."
"When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases that they can be used by other organisms."
Reasoning:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break down dead plants and animals and restore their nutrients to the atmosphere. Decomposers break down other organisms when they die. Then they will restore the nutrients to be used by other organisms. If there were no decomposers, the plants and animals would have this way of getting nutrients. The nitrogen cycle game also shows that decomposers are a big part in the nitrogen cycle. Without it, there would be a hole in the nitrogen cycle.When the nitrogen cycle passes through a decomposer, they return their nutrients to the atmosphere. This again allows for other organisms to use this. Nutrients are crucial to the growth of living organisms. If there were no decomposers, the nutrients would not be cycled.

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Claim:
If there weren't any decomposers on earth, there would be nothing to break down the other organisms in the ecosystem, allowing the food chain cycle to start all over again.
Evidence:
Evidence:
-In the nitrogen cycle game, it shows that the organisms in an ecosystem must be decomposed in order for the cycle to start over again and that every living thing has a role in the ecosystem.
-Every living organism contains different elements that must be broken down in order for the food chain to continue.
-“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
Reasoning:
The cycles of matter are essential for life on earth because without them, we wouldn't have anything to survive on. Decomposers play a main role in helping to continue the food chain going on. Every single organism in the ecosystem plays a role in keeping the environment thriving. If there was nothing to decompose these living organisms, there would be no way for the ecosystem to continue. Every living thing contains nutrients that must be broken down, so that the ecosystem can continue on. Without the nutrients that is inside of these living organisms, there would be nothing to help sustain the ecosystem. This is why decomposers are crucial to helping the ecosystem to survive.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers on planet earth then, there would be nothing to break down the dead animals. There would be dead organisms that are just dead, there isn't anything turing it into energy.

Reasoning:

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Claim // If there were no decomposers on the planted earth then, there wouldnt be anything to take the energy out of the  dead organisms. There for; No organisms would be able to return the nutriants to the soil. And nothing to break down the dead organisums.

Evidence // With out decomposers you would just have a bunch of dead animals and plants laying around.
--Decomposers are the ONLY things that Break down energy.
--Without decomposers there won't be engough to any energy in the soil
--Decomposeres are a HUGE part of the eco system just like in a food chain you cant take things out or put new things in.

Resoning // So with out decomposeres you wont be able to have a heathly eco system reurning things to the earth, witch is a big part of it. This would mean that alll the trash from dead bodys of anilmals// dead plants. There for; it would not be a functioning eco system.

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Claim:
If decomposers did not exist, there would be nothing to break down any organisms. The Earth would be littered with dead animals and the soil would not be fertile. We would also starve.

Evidence:
We learned that if one part of an ecosystem was removed, the whole ecosystem would suffer from it.

We also learned that animals have large amounts of nutrients and gases so if we die and we don't have decomposers, nothing would be broken down.

We consume a lot of food and all of that comes from plants and animals, if there were no decomposers, plants and animals would be very scarce.

Reasoning:
Since there were no decomposers, the nutrients inside plants and animals when they die won't be recycled and this would make it almost impossible for life since there would be almost no nutrients for anything. We would also suffer as humans since we would have no food because there would be almost no life except for humans. Basically, the whole Earth would suffer and die.

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Claim:
If decomposers didn't exist, the world would be filled with billions upon billions of dead organisms. Also, the soil wouldn't gain as many nutrients because of the lack of animal parts returning to the ground.
Evidence:
In the nitrogen cycle game, the nitrogen atoms moved to the dead animals and then added nutrients to the soil.
If nothing decomposes, everything would stay the exact same as it was before it died.
In the eco-column, when the plants died, the worms ingested them and returned them to the soil
Reasoning:
If animals don't have the ability to be broken down by decomposers such as worms (seen in the eco-column) they would just pile up. Also, soil needs nutrients so without dead animals, we wouldn't be able to grow anything.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, all the dead plants and animals would be littered all over the environment and the atoms in organisms never return back to the cycle unless something eats it.

Evidence:
-All the dead organisms would be littered around the world and all of our trash would also never decompose.
- The Nitrogen Game showed us how an Nitrogen Atom goes around and gets decomposed or eaten by an animal and the fact that decomposers play a really large role in it.

Reasoning:
If there were no decomposers the Nitrogen atom wouldn't always get eaten and it would just stay in the dead plant for ever and not be of use. All of our littered trash wouldn't get decomposed either and we would be living in a world of our trash and of dead organisms everywhere we go. The problem is that the Nitrogen Atoms wouldn't end up back in the cycle meaning a big part of nature would just vanish.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposes on earth there would be no sort of waste management system and there would be things like animal body everywhere.

Evidence:
. In the food chain it is said that decomposes are a sort of waste management team.
.Without them there would be a big problem with animal body's and other decompose able elements.
.This also shows that even the smallest organism plays a big roll in the food chain and that all organisms are important.

Reasoning:
If there are no decomposes on earth then there would be a major problem with managing waste. The reason that I believe this is because even the smallest organism that decomposes animal circuses play a roll. If there were no decomposes then there would be a big problem. This goes to show that the smallest part can be a huge factor in the cycle of nytregen, oxygen, and water.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere.

Evidence: There would be a big part of the ecosystem missing due to the lack of nutrias the animals and planets would be getting. The ecosystem can't function if one part is gone.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, dead animals planets and waste would  find their way back into the soil and over a short time period cause massive amounts of the dead stuff to over pile on the surface. It would initially corrupt the food chain billing everything in it.

Evidence:
-- There would be a big part of the ecosystem missing due to the lack of nutrias the animals and planets would be getting. The ecosystem can't fully function without even one part of the chain missing.
-- The Nitrogen Cycle Game is an example of all the different ways and problems that could happen.

Reasoning:
The cycles of matter or the different ways the food chain works is very much important for life on Earth because if some sort of decomposer were to go extinct, that would mess up the whole process of life and either result in too much or not enough food causing the process to collapse and leave many animals and plants dead to rot. Without these tiny but mighty decomposers our life wouldn't be the same.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing in the world to break down waste, or dead organisms.

Evidence:
-A huge section/part of the ecosystem would be missing from the cycle of life
-There would be a lot of dead animal waste in the world and  the world would be littered with decay
-The nitrogen game taught us how a nitrogen atom rotates around and gets decomposed or consumed by an animal and the point that decomposers have a huge role in the ecosystem

Reasoning:
If there were no decomposers in the ecosystem, then there would be a lot of nitrogen atoms and nothing to break them down. As a result of this, there would be a lot decay and waste just laying around and nothing to consume or break it down. As another result of there being no decomposers, there would be no nutrients being returned to the soil, resulting in nothing staying alive and nothing growing. In the end, if there were no decomposers, the world would not be the same and the ecosystem would fall apart.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposes, there would be no waste, dead animals, nutrients going back into the soil.

Evidence // Without the decomposes there would be all of this waste just sitting on the Earth with no way to break it down.
-- There would be a big part of the ecosystem missing. The ecosystem can't fully function without without all parts of the ecosystem, so if you take a part out, it won't work the same way.
-- The Nitrogen Cycle Game is an example of all the different possibilities/ways things rely on each other
Reasoning // This would mean the amount of trash/waste/dead animals would increase significantly. With no way for it to break faster and not just over a long period of time, it would just build up until it would be too mush to handle.
-- Because the ecosystem needs all parts, there would be no nutrients returned to the soil, so there wont be any more nutrients for the plants to produce and keep the cycle going.
-- In the game, some of the possibilities were to go into a decomposer. However, if there was no decomposer element, that possibility would be gone and then the whole cycle would be messed up.