Question

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Use the terrestrial ecosystem food web to answer this question.


Terrestrial Ecosystem Food Web


Leopards eat baboons and impalas in a terrestrial ecosystem. What prediction can be made if the baboon population begins to decrease because of disease?


Question 5 options:


The leopard population will increase.



The scorpion population will decrease.



The impala population will decrease.



The hawk population will increase.

Answer 1

The impala population will decrease.

Step-by-step explanation:

We learn that leopards eat both baboons and impalas. If one of these two species is reduced in abundance, the leopards will increase consumption of the alternative, in this case impalas. An analogy: If you eat only chicken and beef, and the local store ran out of chicken, you'd choose beef, as everyone else in the same predicament. The leopards see fewer baboons because of the disease, so they'll start hunting more impalas, and the impala population will decrease.