Consider the following food chain: hawk - rabbit - clover. Each species will contain a different amount of calories in its body (clover: 10 calories, rabbit: 500 and hawk: 1200). Each species has a different daily caloric requirement (clover: sunlight, rabbit: 100 calories, hawk: 300).
How many clover plants, per day, does it take to support one hawk?
approximately 600 clover plants
approximately 30 clover plants
approximately 60 clover plants
approximately 3 clover plants
None, clover plants do not support hawks.
I found this---- but not sure if it relates to Hawk needs 300 calories from eating rabbits, so needs 3,000 rabbit calories available since only 10% moves up the food chain. 3,000 rabbit calories (where food energy is 500 calories per rabbit) means you need 6 rabbits to feed the hawk.
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None! Hawks don't eat clovers, or at least that was the answer on my quiz lol.
To determine how many clover plants are needed to support one hawk, we need to calculate the overall caloric requirement of the hawk and then find out how many clover plants are needed to meet that requirement.
Given that the hawk's daily caloric requirement is 300 calories and each rabbit provides 500 calories, we can calculate how many rabbits are needed to meet the hawk's requirement.
300 calories / 500 calories per rabbit = 0.6 rabbits
Since we cannot have fractional rabbits, we round up to the nearest whole number, which is 1 rabbit.
Now, we need to consider the number of clover plants needed to support one rabbit. If each clover plant contains 10 calories, we can calculate the number of clover plants required.
100 calories / 10 calories per clover plant = 10 clover plants
Therefore, to support one hawk, we need 10 clover plants to feed one rabbit, and one rabbit to feed the hawk.
So, the correct answer is approximately 10 clover plants.