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Food webs (not just chains) — Homework

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Food webs (not just chains) — Homework

Use the food web idea, multiple connections, not just one chain, to answer.

  1. 1.Why do ecologists prefer food webs over single food chains?
  2. 2.Describe a food web with 1 producer, 2 prey consumers, and 1 predator that eats both prey.
  3. 3.In your web above, what happens to the predator if one prey species becomes rare?
  4. 4.In a food web diagram, which direction do the arrows point?
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