Prairie food web. Hawk, Hognose snake, garter snake, sparrow, toad, spider, grasshopper, rabbit, grass, mouse. Tundra food web. brown bear, polar bear, snowy owl, wolf, arctic fox, musk ox, caribou, lemming, hare, moss, grass, lichen.
Refer to the food webs above. If the grasses in each ecosystem are attacked or killed by a disease, which ecosystem will most likely survive?
A
The prairie ecosystem, because fewer organisms eat grass
B
The tundra ecosystem, because there is a variety of producers
C
The prairie ecosystem, because there are fewer top predators
D
The tundra ecosystem, because it has more herbivores