Question

Diagram a potential food web including cougars, foxes, eagles, grass, voles, fungi. Include indications of trophic levels (primary producers, primary/secondary tertiary consumers, decomposers) for the organisms involved.

Answer 1

Answer:

Grass - producers

Voles - Primary consumers

Foxes - Secondary consumers  

Cougars and eagles - Tertiary consumers

Fungi - Decomposers

Explanation:

Interaction between biotic and abiotic components constitutes the ecosystem. In an ecosystem, there are producers, consumers and decomposers. In the given group of organisms. Grasses are a producer as they synthesize food through photosynthesis. Voles eat plants are herbivores. They are primary consumers. Foxes feed on other animals, thus they are secondary consumers. Cougars and eagles are tertiary consumers. On the death of producer and different consumers decomposed by decomposers such as fungi. Thus, fungi are decomposers.