Experiment 17 — Break the Food Web

Topic: Biology · Class 8 · Conservation of plants and animals

Aim: Find out what happens to a whole forest when one species disappears.

Daily: Vultures nearly vanished from India in the 1990s, and rotting carcasses and disease followed. Project Tiger protects far more than tigers: saving a predator saves the forest it keeps in balance.

Question: If every tiger disappeared from a forest, what would most likely happen to the grass?

Exp: Without a predator, plant-eaters increase and strip the vegetation.

Question: Green plants in a food chain are called…

Exp: They make their own food and support everything else.

Question: Vultures are important because they…

Exp: Scavengers are nature’s cleaners.

Question: A species found in one area and nowhere else is called…

Exp: Losing its habitat means losing the species entirely.

Exp: It removes the producers and destroys habitat.