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Food web
Concepts tested here
- Food web
All Questions
2012 AIPMT-MAINS 1 question
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Identify the likely organisms (a), (b), (c) and (d) in the food web shown below.
In the food web, vegetation/seeds form the producer level and the arrows show who eats whom.
(a) feeds on vegetation and is eaten by the lion, so it must be a large herbivore: deer.
(b) feeds on vegetation and is eaten by foxes, so it is a small herbivore: rabbit.
(c) feeds on grasshoppers and is eaten by snakes, so it is an insect-eating carnivore: frog.
(d) feeds on vegetation/seeds and is eaten by hawks, snakes and owls, so it is a small seed-eating herbivore: rat.
A cat, dog, bat or tortoise does not fit these feeding positions.
So (a) is deer, (b) is rabbit, (c) is frog and (d) is rat.