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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 does the bee come in the food chain?
Honey bees are considered primary consumers. They feed off of the pollen and nectar produced by plants and make honey. They are consumed by secondary consumers like birds and wasps.
What is the snow leopard role in the food chain?
Snowy owls main diet is Lemmings, however Snowy owls are opportunists, eating almost any meat, often grebes, hares, fish, shorebirds, voles, mice, rats, ptarmigan, marmots, squirrels, rabbits, ducks, prairie dogs, rats, moles, geese, Pheasants, grouse, coot, gulls, songbirds, and other Owls but also carrion.
How do producers get their food?
Producers are green plants. And these plants are green because of a pigment called 'Chlorophyll'. This pigment with the help of carbondioxide from air and sunlight creates food for the plant by a process call 'Photosynthesis'. All other living things in the food chain survive because of this natural ability (Photosynthesis) of plants.
How do predators help an ecosystem?
in an ecosystem, if one animal becomes too plentiful, food sources can become scarce for that creature (and animals with similar diets), causing malnutrition, disease, and potentially death of the species within that area. Predators serve to mitigate the species' population, allowing both species to survive.
If there were no predators, the population of the prey would become staggering. For instance, if there were no cats in the barn, the mice would copulate endlessly, make babies, and there would be no higher animal to do population control. There would be an infestation of mice. Then, the population of the prey of mice would dwindle as there are many more predators being created than prey. The population of the prey of mice would flatline, forcing the mice to either starve or find a new food source. The new food source would go the same way as the last source of food the mice had gotten into.
Who would eat a fox on the food chain?
mountain lions eat kit foxes, wolves eat red foxes. plus coyotes will eat foxes if the fox is already dead.
How does extinction disrupt a food web?
If the food web is disturbed species above will suffer. the species above will not have as much food so their numbers will slowly decrease. Also the species will become ill.
How does the African buffalo have its food chain?
In Africa, the animal food chain includes the zebra and gazelle being eaten by lions and vultures. Crickets are eaten by frogs, that are eaten by hawks.
What is the Level of nourishment in a food chain?
The food pyramid begins with producers (plants) on the first level, it then goes to primary consumers (eat producers) on the second level, the third level is made up of secondary consumers and so on. All of these levels come together to make the food pyramid. There must be the most producers and the least top order consumers in order to maintain a balanced ecosystem.
What role is an algae in an ocean's food web?
Algae is an important part of the ocean food chain because it is used to eat other organisms and also protects other life form as well. It is just another important life form that God created that fits right in for the right reason.
What can be both a predator and prey in an ecosystem?
Boy, almost countless examples.
A snake can prey on a mouse and an eagle can prey on the snake, thus the snake is both prey and predator.
A frog can prey on bugs and a snake preys on the frog. Thus the frog is both predator and prey.
Just about every species that exists and/or existed serves as food to some other species resulting that almost every species are both predators and prey.
Think about a food chain its called a chain because their are countless of possibilities of who eats what. A food chain almost always starts with the energy of the energy of the sun->plants->herbivores->omnivores or carnivores-> and so on, and always ends up dead and so the fungi, moss, mushrooms and such to disintegrate them back to the earth. So if in a "food chain" a shark was on top of the food chain, well technically it couldn't be because humans could also kill/hunt them and us humans can be also killed/hunted by another species
Why are green plants so important in a food chain?
Green plants are green because they contain chlorophyll and convert carbon dioxide, water, sunlight and nutrients into edible plant matter. They are a mechanism through which solar energy is captured in a form that can then be utilized by the rest of the food chain. Without green plants constantly adding this energy to the food chain, the other entities within the food chain would run out of energy sources since they cannot convert the solar energy directly as a source for their own energy.
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How do consumers get the food they need to maintain life?
How Does A consumer Get its Energy: by eating.
We get energy by eating food.
What organisms in the food chain is responsible for recycling nutrients?
The organism that produces food in the food chain for other organisms is the producer. The producer is usually a green plant that is eaten by an omnivore or a herbivore. And the food chain continues
How Does a food chain or a food web contribute more to ecosystem sustainability?
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Cats are high on a food web. Domestic cats come just below domestic dogs near the top of a food web.
What is the role of a supply chain manager?
Some duties of a supply chain manager consists of managing all steps it takes to get the product into the consumers hands. This includes from the processing of the product to customer service to the customer.
Where is the giant panda located on the food chain?
Pandas are not preys, but they are not predators either. Pandas don't have a very exciting food chain, because their food chian only consists of BAMBOO and SMALL ANIMALS, such as rats, owls, mice, rabbits etc.) NOTE: Pandas DONT kill the animals, when they eat them they are already killed.
Is a horsetail a consumer or producer?
A horsetail is a type of plant and all plants are producers which are eaten by consumers.
What happens if one animal in the food chain becomes extinct?
If apex predators went extinct, it would probably allow the prey species that the predators ate to multiply and overproduce, and that overproduction would then over eat the plants and other things that they subsisted upon, which would deplete the food supply, causing a massive die-off of the prey species. Hopefully things would balance again at some point, but it depends on whether the environment was destroyed by the overpopulation surge, and whether the prey species are able to adapt or spread to sustain themselves.
Why do food chains usually begin with a plant species?
Actually, the food chain begins with the Sun. Producers are just the primary energy source, which use photosynthesis to make food. Herbivores get their energy from the plant's sugar produced during photosynthesis.
Where are stingrays on the food chain?
In the ocean ecosystem, bull sharks are at the top of the food chain web. It is a predator that preys on fish, turtles, dolphins, and other sharks. Because they have few to no natural predators, bull sharks are considered apex predators.
