Question

The advantage of a food web is that even if one organism is removed, the food web is not affected.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

1. A food web consists of many interlinked food chains.
2. A food web is complex.
3. A prey may have multiple predators and a predator may have multiple prey.
4. The removal of any one organism from the food web may have severe consequences.
5. For example:- if the frog is removed, the number of grasshoppers may increase. The grasshoppers will eat more leaves and grass, and may thus deprive other organisms in the food web of nutrition.
6. Thus, each organism in a food web is important and cannot be removed without consequences.

Thus, the given statement is false.