Question

1. Create a food web based on the information provided in the article. Include the following organisms in your food web: wolf, elk, aspen trees, cottonwood trees, coyotes, voles, willow trees, and grasses.​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the food web...

Producers:  aspen trees, cottonwood trees,  willow trees, and grasses.​

Consumers: wolf, coyotes, elk, voles,

Explanation:

Food webs depict the flow of energy and nutrients within a biological community. In communities, species or groups of organisms have special roles called niches; every species plays an important role in the community.

Some organisms are called producers or autotrophs.  Autotrophs include plants, microbes, and other species that photosynthesize, producing energy/ a food source. Here the producers, on the bottom of the web are aspen trees, cottonwood trees,  willow trees, and grasses.​

Consumers include fungi, protists, and bacteria that consume organic matter made by producers-  these are heterotrophs. Here, primary, secondary and tertiary consumers include plant-eating elk, voles along with the carnivores (wolves), and plants/ animal eating coyotes who feed on these animals