Question

Assume that you just returned from a visit to the Pond and that you identified the following organisms on your visit:

>> Daphnia

>> Snails

>> Dragon fly larvae

>> Scenedesmes

>> Ostracod

>> Elodea

>> Diatoms

>> Worms

>> Hawk

>> Bass

>> Frogs

>> Spirogyra

>> Oscillatoria

>> Spinosaurus

>> Bosmina

>> Copepod

>> Euglena

>> Paramecia

>> Midge larvae

>> Zygnema

Draw a food web that includes all of these organisms.

Answer 1

The energy sourse for a typical pond is sun.The producers include algae ,duckweed,elodea,and microscopic plants.The primary consumers include,snails,tadpoles,and water fleas. The secondary consumerscinclude dragondfly larvae,water snakes. The tertiary consumers include king fisher, hawk etc. Sun gives energy to microscopic plants,algae,duckweed ,eloeda and periphyton.The consumers such as water fleas ,snails,tadpoles eat these plants.