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Chained to a web again SECTION A Use the food web below to answer the questions. & Kpaticher << grass 1 If all the grasshoppers are killed, what would immediately happen to the population of ducks? Explain your answer. There will be no effect on the ducks. The grasshoppers do not affect the ducks directly as they are not a direct food source. 2 Another animal, the falcon, was introduced into the food web. The falcon has a similar diet as the eagle. What do you think will happen to the population of the eagle? Explain your answer. It will decrease because the falcon compete with the eagle for ducks, rds and snakes, leaving lesser food-ferthe-eagle-as they -have-a-simitar diet.———_ 3 Complete the table below by identifying the correct organisms in the food web. a) | One food producer Grass / Fern / Duckweed b) | Three consumers Any three animals ©) | One primary consumer | Grasshopper / snail / caterpillar / fish/duck d) | One prey of the lizard Spider / Grasshopper / Caterpillar @) | One Predator of the Spider / Lizard grasshopper Total number of 1 herbivores 7 4) | One herbivore Grasshopper / snail / caterpillar h) | One carnivore Spider / Lizard / kingfisher / snake / eagle i), Total number of 2 omnivores 4 Form a food web from the organisms A, B, C, D, E and F described below. Aeats C and D. Beats F. C produces oxygen. D eats plants only. E eats A and D only. F competes with D for the same type of food. ae N77 c

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