Detritivores and saprotrophs are both involved in decomposing the dead biological matter yet there are interesting but slight differences between their methods. Detritivores. Detritivores are a type of heterotrophs that feed on the dead or organic biomass including animals, plants, and faeces. Detritivores are essentially able to digest lumps of biomass separately; hence, most of the unicellular organisms (bacteria and protozoa) and fungi may not fall into the category of detritivores.
The majority of Earth's population and its largest cities are in the Northern Hemisphere, although there are large cities such as Lima, Peru, Cape Town, South Africa, Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand.
Quick Answer. The largest landform region in Canada is the Canadian Shield. The Canadian Shield covers a large land area, stretching from the Western coast of Canada through the Interior Plains, the East coast and into the Hudson Bay. This landform includes nearly eight million miles of land, and extends into the United States and Greenland as well.