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burchfield96

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Why is soil considered to be a detritus-based ecosystem? Describe how the aboveground portion and the belowground portion of an ecosystem act as two interrelated, interdependent communities.
 
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What four categories are used to define hazardous chemicals?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Soil is a detritus-based ecosystem because the source of energy for the ecosystem is detritus. The aboveground portion of an ecosystem provides the detritus (energy and nutrients) for the belowground ecosystem, and the belowground ecosystem breaks down the detritus into a form that can be taken up by plants in the aboveground portion. Each ecosystem is dependent upon the other.

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The categories are ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, and toxicity.


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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