Question

Question:

Farmer Brown has sprayed his fields to kill the grasshoppers eating the grass in his pastures. Predict what will happen to the other living things in this food chain. Will their number increase or decrease and why?

Answer 1

They would relatively decrease because an important food source is diminishing and if they were ton eat the grasshoppers they to would become poisioned.
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Answer 2

In a grassland food chain, grasshopper feeds on grasses is a herbivore, primary consumer. Grasshopper in turn eaten by secondary consumer such as frog. Frog is being eaten by snake, a tertiary consumer. By killing grasshopper, the food chain will gets disturbed. Thus, population of secondary consumer and tertiary consumer will decrease in absence of their food and the population of grasses will increase in absence their consumers, grasshoppers.