Living things obtain matter from their environment and release waste back into it. This matter moves in a cycle. Plants use air,
water, nutrients, and sunlight to make food and grow. Some animals eat the plants and use their matter to grow. When those animals die, decomposers will grow using the matter from the animals' bodies. The decomposers release this digested matter back into the air and soil. The matter in an ecosystem is recycled. Gases are a type of matter that moves through an ecosystem. For example, oxygen and carbon dioxide are cycled between organisms and the air. The producer in the diagram takes carbon dioxide from the air. It uses this gas and water to make sugar, releasing oxygen as waste. Then the consumer breathes in the oxygen and uses it in its body. It also eats the producer for food, represented as carbon in the diagram. The decomposer takes oxygen from the air and food from the consumer or producer. The consumer and decomposer make carbon dioxide, putting it into the air. When producers use it again, the matter is recycled. Describe in words how carbon and oxygen move through an ecosystem. (my little bro needs help and I am to lazy to do it)
"living things obtain matter from their environment and release waste back". plants use carbon dioxide, then let out oxygen for us to use. When animals die, decomposers release the digested matter back into the air and soil. Different types of gases move throughout a ecosystem and is recycled between organisms and air. (again going back to the air recycled between a plant and a human).
the decomposers release carbon dioxide that help plans grow then they can do photosynthesis then the oxygen is given to animals then they die then decompose and that's a cycle
