Consider the following food chain: Plants are eaten by grasshoppers, which are eaten by mice, which are eaten by snakes. What would happen to the other members of the food chain if the plant population was wiped out?

Plants are the food source for grasshoppers, so wiping out the plants would cause the grasshopper population to decrease. With fewer grasshoppers, mice would have less food and decrease as well; snakes would then have fewer mice to eat and decrease. Therefore, the populations of grasshoppers, mice, and snakes would all decrease.

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