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Conserving Biodiversity

Chapter 16, Problem 7

The web of life refers to the                  . a. evolutionary relationships among living organisms; b. connections between species in an ecosystem; c. complicated nature of genetic variability; d. flow of information from parent to child; e. predatory effect of humans on the rest of the natural world

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Hi everyone, here's our next question. All living things in an ecosystem rely on all other living and non living things for food and other necessities in order to survive. This interdependence is referred to as the we have choices of food web web of life, food jane and energy flow. Well let's just talk through these answers. Choice A says food web. But our problem said it's talking about the reliance on things living and non living things for food and other necessities. So we're not just limited to food here. So Choice a food web would not be our answer. Norwood Choice sea food chain because we're talking about more than just food. Um Choice D says energy flow. But again we're not just talking about um energy path being passed from things because again it says rely on living and non living things for food and other necessities in order to survive. So not just limited to energy flow here. So our answer will be choice be the web of life and the word web there is connected to that. Interdependence with the idea that like a spider web, if you broke one strand, you start to unravel the whole thing. So that web is a way of conveying that sense of interdependence. If you impact one part of an ecosystem, all aspects of that ecosystem will be affected. See you in the next video
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