They would be called a carrier
The dependent variable in an experiment could be formally called the cause while the independent could be called the effect.
C: primary Consumer
<em>primary consumers</em> are typically animals that eat plants aka herbivores.
<em>producers </em>would be plants
<em>secondary consumers </em>are typically ones that eat meat or eat meat and plants aka omnivores.
<em>decomposers, </em>I believe are like your fungus or anything that feeds off of dead organisms or eat the waste of that organism.
Hopefully this helped. I remember learning about this in college.
