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Food Chains and Food Webs
A food chain is a indicator of the producers and consumers of different habitats. Ask questions about the food chains of different ecosystems here.
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Where do wildebeests stand in a food chain?
before lions because the food chain is small animals eat grass wildebeest eat small animals and then lion eats wildebeest
How would an introduction of an Asian carp affect your food web?
The carp would eat plankton, mussels, and plants, which affect the natural balance
Describe how energy flows through a food web?
Energy is in the plants and the herbivores eat the plants, then gaining the energy from the plants. Then carnivore eats herbivore then gaining energy from herbivore. Therefor energy is in the food web! (I think I'm right but if u get this wrong, sorry, just blame it on Gabby: me)
What trophic level are hydra on?
Hydra are secondary consumers, primary consumers feed off of photosynthetic organisms. Hydra eat primary consumers like daphnia for example.
Do any animals eat water lilies?
Because of a water lily's high nutritional content, many animals are attracted to them. Some animals do eat water lilies but the only ones I know of are fish and snails.
Was the saber-toothed at the top of the food chain?
Yes, saber-toothed cats were at the top of the food chain because they had no predators. However, they weren't the only apex predators where they lived, so they had enemies, including lions, hyenas, bears, wolves, and humans.
In parasitic food chain, the pyramid of number always inverted, because a single plant may support the growth of many herbivore and each herbivore provide nutrition to several parasites, which support many hyperparasite. Thus, the number of organisms gradually shows an increase
What is the food chain for the loon?
the food chain for the loon starts with the sun where the suns rays are absorbed by seaweed which then various breeds of fish eat and then the loon consumes the fish which then the loon is consumed by its predators
What are the four main parts to any food chain?
They're simply called layer 1, 2, 3 and 4. Usually, the biggest individual animal (EG: Bear) is at the top, while the biggest mass of animals (EG: Copepods) is at the bottom.
What is missing from this food chain Grass-grasshopper-bird-snake?
Perhaps you should add a decomposer like maggots or worms.
Where in a food chain is an Anteater?
An anteater would be considered a 2nd order heterotroph in most cases. An anteater would be considered a 2nd order heterotroph in most cases.
Why are there fewer lions than antelopes in the African savanna?
Because lions are predators, not the pray.
every food-chain on the planet has this structure.
There needs to be enough antelope to feed a pride of lions, who bigger stronger and incidentally will need more food, the antelope and lion population will remain constant, more antelopes then lions, UNLESS more or less lions or antelopes move into the area, it takes lions or antelopes longer/quicker to reproduce, or disease. The peak of the lion population will ALWAYS FOLLOW the peak of the antelope population, and the trough of lion population will always follow the trough of antelope population- in other words there will always be more prey than predator. This is because if there is a decline in antelope population, this will then result in a decline in antelope population as there is less for lions to eat, with less lions, the antelopes will reproduce and have a larger amount of offspring survive, which will increase the antelope population, with more antelopes to eat, the lion population will increase until there are not enough antelope for the lions to eat, which will cause a drop in lion population, and the cycle repeats. there is always MORE prey than Predator- otherwise both species would die out.
Which one would survive with out a food chain a strawberry plant a chicken or a dog?
a strawberry plant
Eliminating any animal would greatly affect the food chain. eliminating the carnivore would result in an abundance of the herbivore that the carnivore eats. this wouild result in much less of the plant that the herbivore eats, not enough for all of them out there.
Why does extinction mess up the food chain?
Imagine a very short food chain
Species A eats species B, and species B eats species C
If species B becomes extinct, then species A loses a source of its food, and its survival may become threatened; and species C loses its predator and its population may grow to become a plague to its environment.
What is the one factor that will increase eagle population in a food chain?
increase in the population of snakes and lizards
