Question

The diagram below shows a desert food web. How will a large decrease in the number of rats impact the food web shown above?

Answer 1

the snakes would slowly die off because it is there only source of food.

Answer 2

Decrease of snake, coyote, and hawk population. Increase of sagebrush and cacti.

Reasons:

The rats are aten by the snake coyote and hawks so if a food source is taken from them they are going to have to fight more for food. The rats eat the sagebrush and cacti so if they arent getting eaten as much, they have mroe ime to produce.