Question

Consider the following food chain: garden plants are eaten by snails, which are eaten by birds, which are eaten by the household cat. What happens to the other members of the food chain if the cat is removed?

Answer 1

The garden plants and snails stay balanced as they are still being eaten. However, if the cat is removed, the birds will overpopulate and then the snail would be eaten and decrease faster which gives garden plants an increase in population due to the decrease in snails. Hope this helps! 

Answer 2

If the cat does not eat the bird this means that the birds population will start increasing because the cat isn't killing them. The snail population will decrease due to the fact that there is an abundance of birds. The garden plants will also start to flourish because there are no snails eating them.