Consider the following food chain… Grass, beetles, raccoons, and coyotes live in a forest ecosystem. When a raccoon eats a beetle, the matter that made up the beetle’s body is transferred to the raccoon, and the total amount of matter in the ecosystem…

Does not change.

Explanation:

Because the matter that made up beetle transfered to racoon. Some of this matter will be used for the racoon's body cells and others will come back to nature.

At last total matter will stay the same as past. Not more not less.

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