You are given an elementary science question along with a few answer options. List all the words from the question that are essential and sufficient for choosing the correct answer option. Keep in mind that essential words are necessary to understand the meaning of the given question. However, non-essential words provide little information needed to select the correct answer. You can think about it like this: If the question was in another language, knowing the meaning of which words were necessary and enough for you to understand the question and answer it?. If your answer consists of multiple spans of words from the question, separate those using a comma (", "). Do not generate any word that is not present in the question. Make sure that your response is contained in the given question and the words are in the same order as the question.
 Grammatical correctness is not important.

Question: Which will most likely cause a decrease in predator populations? (A) an increase in prey populations (B) a decrease in prey populations (C) a decrease in decomposers (D) an increase in producers?
cause, decrease, predator, populations?

Question: What effect does a producer have on the food chain? (A) It makes energy for the food chain. (B) It recycles material in the food chain. (C) It eats food in the food chain. (D) It stops the food chain from working.?
effect, producer, food, chain?

Question: Decomposers serve important roles in an ecosystem. One of the things they do is ___. (A) reduce nutrients in the soil (B) reduce insect populations (C) recycle nutrients (D) recycle water?

Decomposers, roles

