Friday, January 22, 2010

Desert Ecosystem - Food Web Project


1. the producers in this food web are the cactus fruit and the flowering plant.

2. the primary consumers in this web are small mammals and insects.

3. the secondary consumers in the food web are the scorpions, rattlesnakes, and lizards.

4. the food chain will be affected more in both ways but it would be affected more if the farmer shoots all the rattlesnakes that he finds because then the lizards, eagles,coyotes, and roadrunners will have nothing to eat, and some of them will go to insects which will then finish if the farmer sprays insecticide on them.

5. if a plant produces a seed that sticks to a coyotes fur to get transported then this relationship is called mutualism, because none of both sides is harmed when the plant leaves the seed on the coyotes fur since both of them are benefiting from this relationship and this is because they are interdepending on each other since the plant is depending on the coyotes to take the seed and the coyotes is depending on the plant to eat.

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