Question

Choose one of the food chains shown within the food web in Figure 3-4. Write a paragraph describing the feeding relationships among the organisms in the food chain.

Answer 1

The food web in the everglades would be the one that involves the algae, flagfish, largemouth bass, anhinga, aligator, pig frog, killfish, everglades crayfish, and plants leaves, seeds and fruits. The food chain I choose is the one involving the largemouth bass, flagfish and algae. The algae is the primary producer or the autotrph, the flagfish is the primary consumer and the largemouth bass is the secondary consumer. This means that the algae since it's autotrph creates it's own food. The flagfish is heterotrph so it needs other resources for food and it eats the algae as primary consumer and the largemouth bass eats the flagfish.

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