Question 3 task card 2

What would happen to the food chain if the owl who is at the top became extinct?

If the owl were to become extinct there would be no predetors for the 2nd level consumers which would then cause them to over populate and create 2 possible problems. Either they could die out because there is not enough food for all of them or eat all lower order consumers forcing them to extinction. Leaving an overgrowth of producers which would not be used in the food chain anymore.

In conclusion if something leaves the food chain it will become unbalanced and eventually will be destroyed.

-ROSS & JACOB