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Activity 8

8.1 Study the food chain below and answer the questions that follow:

Food Chain: pondweed → tadpole → eel → bird

8.1.1 If the food chain represented above was the only one to exist in an ecosystem as a result of limited biodiversity, predict what would happen if:

(a) All the tadpoles died

(b) All the birds died



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Final answer:

The impact of tadpole and bird extinction on the given food chain explained.


Explanation:

Food Chain Impact Analysis:

  1. If all the tadpoles died, it would disrupt the food chain causing a decrease in eel population, potentially leading to an increase in pondweed due to reduced predation pressure on them by tadpole eels.
  2. If all the birds died, it could result in a surge of tadpole eel population due to the removal of a major predator, which might lead to a decline in pondweed as eel numbers increase.

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