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WAEC Biology 2008 Question 33

Question 33

Feeding Relationships and Energy Flow

Study the food web and use it to answer the question.
What would be the effect of taking the lion out of the web?

Diagram for this question
  1. A.The number of organisms at each trophic level would increase
  2. B.Man would occupy the apex of the web
  3. C.There would be more rabbits in the web
  4. D.The energy reaching the remaining trophic levels would increase.
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: B (Man would occupy the apex of the web)

Explanation

Nothing in the web eats man except the lion, so without the lion man becomes the top (apex) consumer.