Use the food web to
the right to answer the following questions: - What is the producer in this environment?
- What are the tertiary consumers?
- Give two examples of competition in this food web.
- Identify the omnivore in this food web.
- Identify the decomposer in this food web.
- Which animals are herbivores?
- Give an example of a predator-prey relationship.
- If the grasshopper population decrease, what will be the effect on the populations of grass, frogs, and beetles?
- Name two biotic and two abiotic factors that affect this food web.
- How many hawks can be supported by 25,000 grasshoppers?
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Use the graph of the carrying capacity of deer to the right to
answer the following questions.
- What is the carrying capacity of this ecosystem?
- What happened in 1850 to make the deer population drop so rapidly?
- What happened in 1900 to make the deer population grow so much?
Use the scenario below to answer questions 14 – 16.
There was a large wildfire that destroyed large fields of
grasses and shrubs in this ecosystem.
- How would this effect the carrying capacity of this ecosystem?
- What would happen to the population of deer?
- Wolves are predators of the deer what do you think would happen to the wolf population following this wildfire?
Use the scenario below to answer questions 17-20.
A new species of rabbit is introduced to the area and its
population begins to grow rapidly. The rabbits eat the same food as the deer.
- What is the ecological relationship between the rabbits and the deer?
- Will the deer population increase or decrease? Explain.
- Will the wolf population increase or decrease? Explain.
- The rabbit population grows and grows and then suddenly drops a great amount, give a reason for what might have occurred?
