Question

Answer each part below.

A. Which organism labeled in this food web provides energy, either directly or indirectly, to all of the other organisms? Explain why this is your answer.
B. Explain why the amount of food available to the slug population might increase if the aphid population decreased.

Answer 1

A- producers provide energy to all of the other organisms. they directly supply energy to primary consumers (animals who eat plants). They indirectly supply energy to other consumers by feeding the animals that they eat. The energy gets transferred from the producers to the primary consumers, to the secondary consumers, and to the tertiary consumers.

B- aphids and slugs both eat producers. if the aphid population decreases, there will be less competition for the slugs to eat the their food.