Hardness is the answer I believe
The answer to this question would be <span>Some is used by decomposers, and some is released into the environment as heat.
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When an organism died, decomposer can degrade some of its remaining corpses and use the produced energy. Some of the parts can't be degraded like bones.
The total energy should not be decreased as it was opposing the law of conservation of energy.
The answer of this question would be Chloroplasts
