Animals In The Desert Food Chain
A stream reef side of a pool field and woodland are all instances of an ecosystem.
Animals in the desert food chain. These animals are fewer in numbers than the herbivores as one secondary consumer consumes many herbivores for survival. The herbivores are mostly small animals like rodent kangaroos rats and lizards. Part 2 Desert Food chain - The Producers Part 3 Desert Food chain - The Cacti.
Food Chains The following food web shows the relationships between the consumers and producers specific to the Gobi desert. In the harsher desert environments they are the top predators. Food Web in a Desert Biome.
For example scavengers such as vultures eat dead animals. A frog is a predator when it eats an insect. A grizzly bear is an omnivore.
So a desert food chain starts with a saguaro cacti followed by a wood rat then a diamondback rattlesnake and finally a red-tailed hawk. It can live up to 2000 years and can grow to about 24 feet wide. With a continued focus on the Sonoran Desert students are introduced to the concepts of food chains and food webs.
These animals are eaten by larger insects lizards and also snakes. This is an example of a food chain in the desert. Sixth graders examine the prairie food chain while designing a rescue strategy for an endangered species.
The coyotes natural predator was at one time the wolf. Or another example would start with brittlebush. Simultaneously the plants depend totally on the unpredictable desert environment.