Question

Create a terrestrial food chain of four trophic levels. What will happen if all the final consumers of this food chain die?

Answer 1

A terrestrial food chain can be created as follows:

Explanation:

• A four trophic level chain can be depicted as follow:

• Plants→ mice→snake→ hawks

• The final consumers in this chain are the hawks.

• If all the hawks die, then the number of snakes will increase. this means that the population of mice will decrease as mice will have more number of consumers

• Hence, the whole food chain will be disturbed by just the eradication of a single species from it.