Describe how increasing stress to the ocean would affect a food chain containing zooxanthellae, corals, parrotfish, and sharks.

Q: Explain how zooplankton avoid predation through vertical migration.

A: Planktons are aquatic organisms that drift throughout their environment as they possess no true…

Q: Give one example of predator animal.

A: Prey is an organism that gets eaten and a predator is an organism that eats the prey.

Q: Using the food web pictured below, answer the following question. What would happen to the mussel…

A: Introduction - A food web is a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community…

Q: Refer to the food web at the top of the page. Which terms describe the mountain lion? Select all…

A: Introduction Food web:- A food web consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem, it is the…

Q: What changes might the parasitoid wasp evolve in response to the defense strategies of the housefly…

A: parasitoid wasps are a large group of waste that lays an egg on the body of other arthropods causing…

Q: In two to three paragraph. Discuss, why climate change is crucial to the survival of sea turtle…

A: Given:     Climate change is crucial to the survival of sea turtle population.

Q: Explain how making dog food from insects could improve human food security in the future.

A: Insects are very useful for insects as well as for environment as it controls pest, pollinate crops,…

Q: Distinguish between venomous animals and poisonous animals

A: Animals are the multi-cellular organisms that belong to the kingdom Animalia. They are heterotrophic…

Q: Of the following types of fish, which would be the safest to eat? Explain your answer. Mackerel,…

A: Heavy toxic metals accumulate in the fatty tissues of the organisms of a food chain.

Q: Corals are living organisms that provide a natural ecosystem in the ocean called a coral reel Fish…

A: One of the highly diverse ecosystems on earth is the coral reefs. These reefs are built by coral…

Q: Refer to the figure. Which hare (Lepus spp.) probably inhabits in the desert? (a) (e) (d) (b) Lepus…

A: Ecology is field of science that generally deals with learning of connection between various living…

Q: Flowering plants reward visiting insects with nectar. The insects, inturn, carry pollen to other…

A: Step 1 Ecological relationship describes the interactions between and among organisms in their…

Q: Which of the following is an example of commensalism? a. A tapeworm living in the gut of its host…

A: Answer- Commensalism is the process in which one species is benefited and another species remains…

Q: Write an essay on the importance of coral reef with the mentioned requirements in the attached pic…

A: Ans: The detailed essay with 200 words on corel reef an underwater ecosystem has been mentioned in…

Q: Fill in the graphic organizer below to describe how beavers change the environment. The first box is…

A: Answer :-  Beavers build a dam in a stream. Beavers also build a lodges in a stream.…

Q: Prefer to eat leaves from shrubs and trees that are above the ground level.

A: Ecology is the scientific analysis of the interactions between living species and their physical…

Q: specific competition. explain how insects reduce intraspecific competition between adults and…

A: The components of the environment such as food, water, oxygen, etc. are the resources that are…

Q: Report and explain the Poison Ivy/Poison Oak/Poison Sumac/Wood Nettle/ Snake bites

A: Poison ivy is an oak plant called Toxicodendron radicans that can cause skin allergy called contact…

Q: Turtles on a small island tend to mate with relatives more often than turtles on the mainland.

A: Non-random mating or inbreeding is the process of mating only selected organisms in order to…

Q: Explain how the brittle star is different from the starfish in terms of: the stock exchanges The…

A: Both brittle star and star fish fall under the phylum- Echinodermata.  All the animals of this…

Q: A large group of American Robins will travel around during Winter in search of

A: The American robin is a usually migratory songbird category of a bird of the true thrush genus and…

Q: Complete the following sentence. The figure illustrates that when orcas started eating sea otters,…

A: addition or removal of apex predator that is the key stone species which causes the change in type…

Q: study and analyze the following pictures of differnt animals below. then give the reason why these…

A: Out of 510 million sq. km. of the earth's surface, less than 30% is covered by land. The rest is…

Q: organisms that live on land rarely compete for

A: Every species compete for the resources for their survival.  The species have wide range of habitat…

Q: Coral reefs are being threatened and/or damaged by all of the following, except discharge of…

A: A coral reef is an underwater surrounding characterized by using reef-constructing corals. Coral…

Q: Explain what happens to species with lower resilience compare to species with higher levels of…

A: High Resilience Contributing Factors- 1. Environment favorable 2. Species / Funcional groups…

Q: Species that can tolerate narrow range of temperature are called.

A: Species is the basic unit of classification having the related organisms which are capable of…

Q: Use the food web diagram to the right to answer questions 1-3 Squid Mackerel Bluefish Killifish…

A: Food chains are defined as the series of individual organisms in a chain that feeds on the previous…

Q: Describe how a deficiency in Vitamin C could result in fish skeletal deformities

A: Ans. Vitamin c is  also known as ascorbic acid is water soluble vitamin. It is important for normal…

Q: Animals have the innate ability to escape from predation, give its example.

A: The predation is a type of ecological interaction under which one member preys on another member. A…

Q: Explain what might happen in the food web if snakes were removed from the ecosystem Snake Frog…

A: An ecosystem is defined as a structural and functional unit of ecology where plants, animals, and…

Q: Compare the tilapia feeding in an extensive system to tilapia feeding in an intensive system.

A: Tilapia is one of the fishes that are consumed highly across the world. So they are also farmed on a…

Q: A bird that lives in a hole in a tree and eats fruit or seeds as an adult while feeding insects to…

A: Symbiosis is a type of close relationship between two organisms. There are different types of…

Q: In your own words, explain why foraging on wild cherry flowersis beneficial for bumblebees in warm…

A: Adaptation is the process by which individual changes his or her physical and behavioral…

Q: Which sentence does not describe a behavior that would help animals to survive? O A. Some animals…

A: Survival is important to all vertebrates and adaptation helps vertebrates survive. Adaptation is a…

Q: Species adapt better and faster if they

A: Answer: ADAPTATION = These are the changes occured in an individual which allows them to grow in…

Q: Explain why feeding domestic cats with a vegetarian diet threatens their health.

A: Cats are carnivorous animals and require meat for survival. This is because cats have higher protein…

Q: Discuss the potential use of sponges as monitors of chemical pollutant stress in marine and…

A: In ecology, chemical pollutant stressors are the external environmental components that change or…

Q: role in the ecosystem

A: An ecosystem is a community of living things interacting with the nonliving parts of the…

Q: Describe how prey species in areas with high predation would differ from prey species from areas…

A: Predation is a natural way of transferring energy fixed by plants to higher trophic levels.  In…

Q: Talk in detail about how the species of congo lions is distributed globally

A: The Congo lion (Panthera leo azandica) is an African lion subspecies. They are definitely the kings…

Q: Name the fish that help in eradication of mosquito larvae.

A: Mosquitoes are pests are of great nuisance to humans and can spread a variety of diseases like…

Q: How does a defense mechanism (behavioural, cryptic colouration, protective colouration, mimicry)…

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Q: How does temperature of sand affect the population of sea turtles? Discuss.

A: Sea turtles use their lower jaw to detect sand as they crawl towards the rear of the beach in search…

Q: MATCHING about feeding types bulk feeders [Choose ] sponge, tube worm, baleen whale suspension…

A: Bulk feeder - human, orca, eagle. Suspension feeder - sponge, tube worm, baleen whale.…

Q: Give reason why the fresh water fish cannot survive in sea water.

A: Tonicity is defined as the measure of effective osmotic pressure gradient. It is the water potential…

Q: To explain: The reason why coral reefs are often compared to tropical rain forests.

A: The Earth has many different habitats. Natural selection, which eliminates the poor-fit individuals…

Q: A defence mechanism is how the sea cucumber fires its internal organs at attackers. How would this…

A: Sea cucumbers are members of the echinoderms.  Their anatomy is identical to a cucumber, but they…

Food Microbiology

The subdivision of microbiology that deals with the interaction between microbes and food particles are called food microbiology. This scientific study incorporates both beneficial and harmful microbes and their effect on the food production, food storage, and health of human beings.