What would happen if an animal in a food chain went extinct?

Answer 1

Everyone would die. There would be nothing for the primary consumers to eat, and they would die off. Then the secondary consumers would die off because they would have nothing to eat. Everything would eventually die from starvation.

Answer 2

If that specific animal was another animals main food, it could destroy both those species, the second from starvation. And if that second species was another animals main food, the third species could go extinct, and so on...

Answer 3

It often happens that there are more consumers than producers in a local food chain.

The outcome is:

- the consumers change to less attractive, less nutritious, harder to get foods, if available.

- starvation reduces the number of consumers to a sustainable level.

- eventually, the reduced population of consumers allows the producers to regain their production, which allows the consumers to repopulate and the cycle continues.

Answer 4

If there were no food chains then there will be a chance of starving food as they have only same food also environmental condition can be changed which can cause a huge problem

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Answer 5

Everything in the food chain would eventually die unless they could find a new producer.

Answer 6

If it is on the bottom of the food chain, the rest in the chain will starve.

If it it is on the top of the food chain, the ones below will have a population outburst.

Answer 7

If one consumer in a food chain became extinct all the others would be in danger and the food chain would collapse because they need each other for food.

Answer 8

The world would die from starvation.

Answer 9

consumers would also die