matter can be recycled because reusing already used matter, helps make it into new matter. without wasting more matter. Any nonliving matter that living things need is called a nutrient. Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients. Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems. ... Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
How Matter Moves Through Ecosystems
Living things need nonliving matter as well as energy. What do you think matter is used for? It's used to build bodies. It's also needed to carry out the processes of life. Any nonliving matter that living things need is called a nutrient. Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients. Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
When living things die, the cycle repeats.Summary
Nutrients are crucial to the growth of organisms.
Decomposers break down dead organisms into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms.
Nutrients can enter or exit an ecosystem at any point and can cycle around the planet.
WHY? to conserve what we have, for matter being recycled helps the ecosystem and its good for our planet!