Earthworm is a classic example of terrestrial detritivores, but slugs, woodlice, dung flies, millipedes, and most of the worms are some of the other examples. Detritivores are recyclers of energy as they are being the food sources for the consumers such as carnivores. They recycle the energy mainly in forms of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The decomposing biological matter is ingested into detritivores, digest inside their digestive system, and shed in simple forms.
Loading. TEMPERATE ZONES The designation temperate is appropriate for the middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere and of the oceans and western coasts in the northern hemisphere, but not for the con tinental interiors and eastern coasts of Asia and North America, for which Koppen's term boreal is better.
The Northern hemisphere also includes the rest of North America, northern portions of South America, all of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia. Antarctica, Australia, most of South America and parts of Africa and Asia are located in the Southern hemisphere. All of North America and South America are included in the Western hemisphere along with the Caribbean and half of Antarctica.