Students should take turns interviewing and being interviewed themselves. They should ask and answer questions about articular predators' habits, adaptations, habitats, life style, plus other interesting infomation. Saprophytes are organisms that feed on dead organisms or on nutrients in the soil that were once parts of organisms. Many bacteria and fungi are saprophytes. These saprophytes are helpful in getting rid of the dead and in recycling nutrients in the dead into simpler materials which may be used by other producers.
Scavengers are organisms that feed on refuse or dead organisms called carrion .
Many predators are part-time scavengers. The lion, coyote, and crow are part-time scavengers. The vulture, dermestid beetle, and blow fly are full time scavengers. Scavenger in removing dead organisms from an ecosystem. Name the organisms which kill and eat other organisms.