Question

Is snail a decomposer?

Answer 1

Hint: A decomposer is an organism that decomposes (breaks down) organic material such as dead organisms' remains. Bacteria and fungi are examples of decomposers. These species carry out the decomposition process, which all living organisms go through after they die.

Complete answer:
Land snails are mollusks that can be found on all continents and are nearly ubiquitous in Eastern North America, where there are over 500 native species. They prefer the upper leaf litter of woodland, old fields, and wetlands, but they can also be found in more disturbed areas like active gardens and fields, river banks, suburbs, and even villages. Snails and slugs with no visible shell are referred to as "ground snails."

These terrestrial mollusks eat a wide range of organic material, including green or dead herbaceous plants, rotting wood and fungi, bark and algae, as well as hollow snail shells, sap, carcasses and animal scats, and even rasp limestone rock or cement. Snails that eat nematodes and other snails are known as carnivorous snails.

Shelled land snails (as opposed to slugs) play an important role in calcium cycling in the environment. They absorb calcium from their food, concentrate it in their calcium carbonate-based shells, and send it up the food chain as they are eaten by predators. Shelled snails and slugs are also decomposers, but they only play a minor role in the process. Shelled snails and slugs are also decomposers, but they play a minor role compared to other decomposers.

Thus, snails are decomposers.

Note: Scavengers and decomposers are the two major types of decomposers. Scavengers hunt for and consume dead plants and animals. Decomposers break down any residual dead matter or waste from animals.