Most food chains start with a producer, go through consumers, and end with a decomposer. Why are decomposers so important in the cycle of life? There are four organisms you'll research for this assignment. Answer the questions in the chart. Then create a food chain for each organism. 1. In which ecosystems would you find this organism (choose one if you find multiple ecosystems)?

2. What does this organism eat or how does it get its energy?

3. How does this organism return nutrients to the ecosystem?

4. Write an example of a food chain that includes this organism. (It does not have to be the end. Example: dead animal  flies and maggots  frog)

5. Include a citation for each source used in the second table.

Decomposer Example Ecosystem What does this organism eat or how does it get energy? How does this organism return nutrients to the ecosystem? Example of a food chain of which this organism is a part

Fungi

Snail

Earthworm

Pill bug

Source of Information: provide the specific source information, including Internet website address, book information, journal information, etc.

Fungi

Snail

Earthworm

Pill bug

answer: d. an organization that fought for women's voting rights

answer:   migrations were important in the neolithic period. "two major migrations passing through southeastern europe were confirmed by the means of archaeo-genetic studies."

the first migration was the early neolithic period -- 6,000 before common era (bce) -- when the first farmers, from anatolia -- asia minor -- spread through europe. the second migration occurred during the early bronze age (3,000-2,500 bce) when the so-called "steppe population," from the eurasian steppe, replaced much of northern europe's previous population.

the first farmers of northern and western europe passed through southeastern europe with limited hunter-gatherer genetic admixture, which occurs when two or more previously isolated populations begin interbreeding. however, some groups that remained mixed extensively -- without the male-biased, hunter-gatherer admixture that prevailed later in the north and west, according to latest discoveries. southeastern europe continued to be a nexus between east and west, with intermittent genetic contact with the steppe people up to 2,000 years before the migrations that replaced much of northern europe's population.

"in some places, hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers seem to have mixed very quickly," says iain mathieson, a geneticist at the university of pennsylvania, who was first author of the paper. "but, mostly, the two groups remained isolated, at least for the first few hundred years. these hunter-gatherers had been living there for thousands of years, and it must have been quite a shock to have these new people show up -- with a completely different lifestyle and appearance."

answer; a farmer who refuses to fight in his country's army;