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As consumers (chemoheterotrophs), animals cannot produce their own food. Any lost link in the food chain prevents the organisms above that point from surviving, at least in their current position on the chain.

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If animals die how does it affect your food chain?

If an animal dies, it affects your food chain; because more animals will die and in the end all the food will run out for predators if they eat to much prey. If you are human it will also affect your food chain because you need meat in your diet.


How does killing one species spiral through the food chain?

it affects the food chain by killing one then another. For example, if rabbits are taken out of an ecosystem, then all the animals that eat the rabbit die and the animals that eat the rabbit- eating animals die, and so forth.


What would happen if all the Tertiary animals in a food chain disappeared?

The loss of tertiary consumers in a food chain would lead to an increase in the population of their prey, the secondary consumers. This would likely result in a decrease in the population of primary consumers as they are consumed at a higher rate. Overall, the ecosystem could become imbalanced as the food chain is disrupted.


What happens if a component is left out of the food chain?

If a component is left out of the food chain then something will not be able to eat it. Then it will die, and the component above it in the food chain will not be able to eat it, and will die. Basically, if a component is left out of the food chain, the food chain collapses.


What are the possible consequences of adding an organism to a food chain?

Adding an organism to a food chain can disrupt the balance of the ecosystem by altering the availability of resources and changing the population dynamics of other species. This can lead to competition for resources, shifts in species distribution, and potentially cause cascading effects throughout the food chain.

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If animals die how does it affect your food chain?

If an animal dies, it affects your food chain; because more animals will die and in the end all the food will run out for predators if they eat to much prey. If you are human it will also affect your food chain because you need meat in your diet.


What happens if a food chain breaks down?

If the food chain is disturbed animals will go hungry. A disruption in the food chain will mean some animals go without the food that they need, while the disruption will cause over population of other animals that will result in food shortages.


How can animals die from animal cruelty?

Animals can die from animal cruelty in many ways. Some ways include starvation. If an animal is left alone with a long period of time without water and food, they will die. Animals also die from infection of an injury from a chain, broken leg, or another injury.


How will the extinction of this animal interrup the ecosystem in which it lives?

food chain! other animals will die


What are the affects on animals with pollution?

animals may get die due to this harmful pollution and hence our food chain be also get destroy.


Why would no other organisms have energy if plants were destroyed?

Because plants are at the bottom of the food chain and it they didn't provide food for other animals the whole food chain would die


Why would scientist believe if animals would become extinct if all plants died?

because there is a life cycle and plants are a part of it therefore, if plants are not there, the cycle/chain would be broken. Also few animals depend on plants for their survival


How do non-native species effect the food chain?

They can come along and eat other animals, which can die out. They might take other animals food and other animals die out. There is positives. There is more food for e.g. a fox so more rabbits are born.


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


What will happen when the plants and animals are destroyed?

we all die! because they will be no food, it is in the food chain!it kindof depends if animals die first well we wont die automaticle,because we have plants to eat.BUT IFALL PLANTS DIE WE WILL ALL DIE WITHIN 2 MONTHS


What dose a food chain end with?

Some people think food chains will never end , otherwise all humans and animals will die.


How would a food be affected if a species disappeared from an ecosystem?

All the other animals would die on the food web because there food disappeared! its a chain reaction