AP BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
If your local environment begins to turn into a desert, what will most likely happen to the organisms that live there?
A
The population of organisms that live there will increase.
B
The population of organisms that live there will not be affected.
C
The desert won’t be able to support any organisms.
D
The population of organisms that begin to live there will be different that the the ones currently living there.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -If the grasses in each ecosystem are attacked or killed by a disease, which ecosystem will most likely survive? The prairie food web, because there is a variety of producers. Prairie food web has only grass as a producer and the tundra food web has moss, grass and lichen as producers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Food shortage as the lands become barren and the oceans become fishless. Loss of biodiversity as whole species of living things disappear due to deforestation. Pollution will eventually become unmanageable and affect our health. Rising temperatures may be too much for all living things on the planet.

Detailed explanation-3: -The impact of ecosystem destruction are the following: Increased flooding due to the erosion of soil and lack of trees. Climate change causes the sea levels rising due to the melting of the glaciers. More a likelihood that natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, droughts will be commonplace.

Detailed explanation-4: -An ecosystem consists of all the factors, such as sunlight and rain, and factors, such as plants and animals, that interact in the same habitat. An ecosystem consists of all the living things and nonliving things interacting in the same area.

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