Describe a food chain that might occur in a desert community?

Answer 1

A food chain includes producers, consumers, ad predators in the forms of plants, herbivores, and carnivores. Predators are at the top of a food chain. Examples of desert food chains are plants, mule deer, and mountain and shrubs or seeds, quail, and a coyote.

Answer 2

A food chain that might occur in a forest community would be a small herbivore (mouse) eating a plant and then being eaten by a carnivore (owl). In the ocean shrimp would eat plankton a larger fish would eat the shrimp and then the larger fish would be eaten by a shark or dolphin. The desert would be the same smaller animal eaten by something larger.

Answer 3

Primary producer : Any Plant (Shrubs)

Primary consumer (herbivore) : Rat

Secondary consumer (carnivore) : Snake

Tertiary consumer (carnivore) : Hawk

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Answer 4

Obviously this will vary from desert to desert by a lot. A stereotypical food chain for an American desert (i.e the Sonoran) might look like this:

cacti --> burrowing owl --> sidewinder (snake) --> hawk (or other large bird of prey)

Answer 5

In a desert community, a food chain might consist of plants like cacti being eaten by herbivores such as desert rabbits. These herbivores in turn might be preyed upon by predators like snakes or Birds of Prey. Decomposers like beetles would then break down the remains of these organisms, returning nutrients to the soil for the plants to use again.