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2. Why are predators an important part of a food web?

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Predators are an important part of the food chain/web because without them, their prey would become to plentiful in population and it would create a huge effect on the rest of the ecosystem. In short, Predators are important to help keep the food web balanced.
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they are important because if there was no predator there is no chain! cause the animals eat eachother and it makes a chain
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