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Interdependence and Food Webs

This document discusses food webs and interdependence between organisms. It includes a food web from an Asian forest with organisms like giant pandas, red pandas, ibex, grass, bamboo, berries, bamboo rats, bamboo rat snakes, yellow-throated martens, and snow leopards. It asks questions about how changes to one population could impact others due to their interdependence, such as a disease killing bamboo potentially decreasing giant pandas or an increase in bamboo rat snakes affecting snow leopards. Overall, the document examines the interconnected relationships between organisms in an ecosystem and how a change in one population can reverberate through the food web.

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Interdependence and Food Webs

This document discusses food webs and interdependence between organisms. It includes a food web from an Asian forest with organisms like giant pandas, red pandas, ibex, grass, bamboo, berries, bamboo rats, bamboo rat snakes, yellow-throated martens, and snow leopards. It asks questions about how changes to one population could impact others due to their interdependence, such as a disease killing bamboo potentially decreasing giant pandas or an increase in bamboo rat snakes affecting snow leopards. Overall, the document examines the interconnected relationships between organisms in an ecosystem and how a change in one population can reverberate through the food web.

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Interdependence and Food Webs

1. Write the key word described by each of the following definitions.

The way in which living organisms depend on



each other to survive, grow and reproduce.

The number of animals or plants of the same



type that live in the same area.

 An organism that kills and eats other animals.

A food web from an Asian forest is shown below. Use the food web to answer the questions
on the following page.

snow leopard

yellow-throated marten

bamboo rat snake

red panda
ibex

bamboo rat

giant panda

grass bamboo berries

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2. Give one example of prey in the food web.


3. Explain what could happen to the population of giant pandas if a disease killed lots of
bamboo.


4. Explain how a change in one organism could cause the population of red pandas to
decrease.
organism 

explanation


5. Explain how a decrease in the population of grass could impact two other organisms in
the food web.
organism 

explanation


organism 

explanation


6. The bamboo rat snake population increases. Explain how this could affect the
population of snow leopards.


7. The berries are pollinated by insects. Explain two ways that a decrease in the number of
insects could affect the organisms in this food web.
1. 

2. 

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