The compettive dominance hierarchy (left) and food web (right) diagrams below sh

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The compettive dominance hierarchy (left) and food web (right) diagrams below show simplfed species relationships for a large meadow habitat in the midwestern United States Recall what the direction of arrows means for each type of diagram, and then use these diagrams to answer the questions below Beetle Splder A Gshopper eathoppeT Competition for food among herbivorous insectr Meadow food web Q5.9. Imagine all the Grasshoppers are removed and excluded from a large area of the meadow ecosystem. Which of the following predictions is LEAST likely to occur, according to the diagrams? O Spider B will go extinct O The Spider C population sze will decrease O The Beetle population size will increase O The diagrams indicate that all of the above are equally likey Q5.10. According to both diagrams, the extinction of which one impact on community structure than the extinction of any one of the others? of the spider species would likely have a much bigger Spider A Spider B Spider G O It is not possible to predict

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Explanation: If all grasshoppers are removed from the meadow area spider B is least likely to get extinct as it obtains its food from beetle, bugs, and leafhoppers.

Q5. 10
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Explanation: The only spider among the group is spider C which consumes grasshoppers along with beetle and bug. If spider C becomes exist at the upper level of the food chain, the grasshopper's population will increase drastically. If spider A exists still spider B will be able to control the population of leafhoppers and bugs.

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