Question

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Matter transfers into and out of the physical environment at every level. Decomposers
________nutrients from dead plant or animal matter. The nutrients go back to the soil in terrestrial environments. The nutrients go back to the
water in aquatic environments. The atoms make up organisms. These atoms get transferred repeatedly between the living and________parts of the ecosystem.

Answer 1

Decomposers recycle first and Nonliving second

Answer 2

Decomposers recycle nutrients from dead plant or animal matter back to the soil in terrestrial environments or to the water in aquatic environments. The atoms that make up the organisms in an ecosystem are cycled repeatedly between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem.