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nete source of energy that drives the food chain?
2. Look at these food chains
grass
for
thrush
slug
a Use the food chains to help you in the
arrows on this food web One has been
added for you
rabbit
Use the food web to help you answer these questions
b Name the producer in this food web.
c Name a consumer in this food web
d What eats rabbits?
Answers
Answer:
a. fox b.plants c. animals d. snakes, eagles, hawks, owl, foxes and raccoons.
Explanation:a.Wild rabbits are often eaten by snakes, eagles, hawks, owl, foxes and raccoons. Domesticated rabbits kept as pets can also fall victim to these predators if the rabbits are kept outside, but dogs and cats may also kill and eat rabbits.
b.Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food! They do this by using light energy from the Sun, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to produce food - in the form of glucouse/sugar. The process is called photosynthesis.
c.Consumers are animals of an ecological food chain that consumes other organisms. ... Primary Consumers- these animals and insects eat primary producers, they are also called Herbivores they feed on plants and fungus, organisms who receive their food and energy through the process of photosynthesis.
d.Wild rabbits are often eaten by snakes, eagles, hawks, owl, foxes and raccoons. Domesticated rabbits kept as pets can also fall victim to these predators if the rabbits are kept outside, but dogs and cats may also kill and eat rabbits.
A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is consumer-resource system.