Grasses are the dominant producers in the prairie ecosystem. Mice eat the grass seeds, snakes eat the mice, and hawks eat the snakes.
The mass of a hawk is around 500 grams.
In this ecosystem, how many hawks can be supported by 250,000 kilograms of producers?
Recall that 1 kilogram is equivalent to 1,000 grams.
(1 point)
5,000
250
5
500
To solve this problem, we first need to find out how many kilograms of producers are available in the ecosystem. We are given that 250,000 kilograms of producers are available.
Next, we need to find out how many hawks can be supported by this amount of producers. Since the mass of a hawk is around 500 grams, we need to convert the mass of a hawk to kilograms.
To convert grams to kilograms, we divide the mass of a hawk (in grams) by 1,000.
500 grams ÷ 1,000 = 0.5 kilograms
Now, we can determine the number of hawks that can be supported by 250,000 kilograms of producers by dividing the total mass of producers by the mass of a hawk.
250,000 kilograms ÷ 0.5 kilograms = 500,000 hawks
Therefore, 250,000 kilograms of producers can support 500,000 hawks.