Question

ASSERTION (A): Decomposers act as cleaning agents of environment.

REASON(R): The decomposers recycle waste material in hydrosphere.

a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation for A

b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation for A

c) A is true but R is false

d) A is false but R is true

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Answer 1

c) A is true but R is false.

• Decomposers feed on dead, decaying materials. As a result, the environment gets cleaned.
• Decomposers recycle materials into the environment by feeding and braking down complex materials.
• As decomposers recycle materials through hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere etc hence the reason is false as decomposers not only recycle material in hydrosphere.

Answer 2

Explanation:

c) A is true but R is false

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