Organism Feeds on grass makes its own food rabbit grass caterpillar oak leaves fox rabbit The food web table below shows what eats what. If a disease wiped ...
Question 1 Report
| Organism | Feeds on |
|---|---|
| grass | makes its own food |
| rabbit | grass |
| caterpillar | oak leaves |
| fox | rabbit |
The food web table below shows what eats what. If a disease wiped out all the rabbits, which animal would lose a food source and might fall in number?
Answer Details
To find which animal is affected, follow the "feeds on" column. The table shows the fox feeding on rabbits, so if a disease wiped out all the rabbits the fox would lose its food source and its numbers might fall. The grass and the oak tree are producers that make their own food, so losing rabbits does not remove their food; the caterpillar feeds on oak leaves, not rabbits, so it is unaffected too. Only the predator that actually eats the lost species suffers directly, so trace the feeding links before deciding.
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