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yes provided that you are talking about a single food chain only within that ecosystem. If you are referring to a food web, then there are other energy transfer pathways. In a simple food chain, if the producer (such as a plant) dies then the consumers will die as well. for example: grass-fly-frog-snake
If the grass is no longer there then the fly will die out causing the frogs to die out etc. If the frog dies out then the snakes will have no food causing them to die and creating a situation where there are now too many frogs which will mean that they will eat more of the flies etc. The most stable ecosystem is one with a lot of diversity and a food web not a simple food chain.
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What will happen if the tertiary consumer dies in a food chain?
If the tertiary consumer dies in a food chain, it could disrupt the entire ecosystem. This could lead to an increase in population of the secondary consumer, which in turn would lead to a decrease in population of the primary consumer. This imbalance in the food chain could have cascading effects on the rest of the ecosystem.
What effects a predator and prey relation?
if the prey dies out it affects the entire food chain, because all the predators and predators to the predators and so on, will have no food and die out eventually.
How is food chain destroyed?
When the producer or consumer or in fact anything in it dies out or is removed then the food chain is destroyed.
Why is food chain important to the living things?
If one animal in the food chain dies, all other above it dies, and the animals below flourish, but eventually die from overpopoulation
In an aquatic food chain what occurs when a fish dies?
it becomes a producer
How does endangered species harm the world?
It hurts the world by harming the food chain. If one scpecies dies out then the whole food chain would suffer, ecpecially if the species were at the botttom of the food chain.
Why should you conserve the wildlife in Kentucky?
It would disrupt the entire food chain of the entire U.S. if we did not.
Does a lion connect to both ends of a food chain?
Alive it is essentially at the top of the food chain...when it dies and decomposes it provides nutritents that begin the cycle over again.
The entire food chain on earth is maintained by the physical processes known as?
photosynthesis
If a mouse dies and is not eaten by a owl how do the nutrients from the mouse go back into the food chain?
it is a mouse
Is every animal in the food chain?
Yes every living thing forms part of the food chain eventually. If a animal dies it becomes part of the food chain, because bacteria brakes it down and put the necessary nutrients back to earth.
The loss of an organism at the bottom of a food chain negatively impacts all organism in the chain true or false?
True. The loss of an organism at the bottom of a food chain can have cascading effects on all organisms in the chain. This can disrupt the balance of the ecosystem and impact the entire food web.
