Question

1. What would occur if decomposers were removed from the environment?

2. How would the ecosystem be affected if your top predators were hunted to extinction?


3. Explain what might occur if an infection began wiping out native grasses and plants in an ecosystem.

Answer 1

1. If decomposers were removed then most animal carcasses and any other dead organic material would be dormant.

2. If top predators were killed off, that predators preys population would spiral out of contorol and take up many other resources.

3. Everything that feed off of grasses and whatever feed of them and whatever would feed of them would die. So in short words that ecosystem would collapse.