Biology 0610 · IGCSE · Food chains and food webs

Food chains and food webs — practice question

Fig. 5.1 illustrates a food web taken from a desert ecosystem.
(a)[4]

On Fig. 5.1, identify a quaternary consumer, a herbivore, an organism that is both a secondary consumer and a tertiary consumer, and an organism at trophic level one.

(b(i))[2]

Draw the pyramid of biomass for this food chain and label the pyramid with the name of each species.

(b(ii))[1]

State the main source of energy for food webs.

(b(iii))[3]

Explain how each of the two possible changes in the road runner population could happen.

(c(i))[2]

Explain why farmers make use of insecticides.

(c(ii))[3]

Suggest three further ways in which humans may lead the population of birds such as hawks to decline.

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