Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dessert Ecosystem:

1. Name the producers in the food web.
-Cactus Fruits and flowering plants.

2. Name all the primary consumers in the food web.
-Insects.

3. Name all the secondary consumers in the food web.
-Small mammals, eagles, coyotes, roadrunners, scorpions and lizards.

4. Insects eat a farmer's crop and this same farmer hates rattlesnakes. What would affects the food chain more? The farmer spraying an insecticide that kills all the insects or the farmer going out and shooting all the rattlesnakes he can find. Explans cain your answer.
- Killing all the insects will affect the foodchain more because in his ecosystem allthe insect can eat are his crops and all the rattle snakes can eat are nothing and if the farmer protects himself with long boots etc. he can be safe and still grow his crops with less ants to eat them, but it'll affect the food chain more.

5. A plant produces a seed that sticks to a coyotes fur to get transported away. What kind of relation is this? Mutulism, commensalism or predation. Explain.
- This type of relation is called Commensalism. This is because the two organisms in which one organism gains something but the other does not benefit or suffer harm.

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