Biology 0610 · IGCSE · Food chains and food webs

Food chains and food webs — practice question

(a)[3]

Explain why plants form the beginning of most food webs.

(b(i))[1]

Use Fig. 6.1 to finish a food chain with four different organisms that ends with the hawk. Fill the boxes with the names of the three missing organisms.

(b(ii))[2]

State two tertiary consumers in the food web in Fig. 6.1.

(c)[4]

Explain what effect this would have on the scorpion population and on the desert plant population if the number of locusts suddenly decreases.

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