The figure below shows part of a food web for the South Atlantic ocean.

      

The figure below shows part of a food web for the South Atlantic ocean.
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a) i) Name the producer in this food web.
ii) Name the top carnivore in this food web.
b) construct a food chain in which leopard seal is a tertiary consumer.
c) In the future, the extraction of mineral resources in the Antarctic might occur on a large scale. This could destroy the breeding-grounds of the Ross seal.
i) State and explain the effects this might have on the population of leopard seal.
ii) List two human activities that can affect the population of organisms in the ecosystem represented by food web.
d) Name the organism with the highest number of predators.

  

Answers


sharon
i) Algae
ii) Killer whale
b) Algae ----> Krill ------> Adelie penguin -------->leopard seal.
c) i) Ross seal are food for the leopard seal; therefore their population will decrease because they will only depend on adelie penguins; whose population will also decrease.
ii) Fishing; farming along the river bed; mining; wastes disposal in the river.
d) Krill;
sharon kalunda answered the question on September 19, 2019 at 12:36


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