Coyotes Pocket gophers
Spiders
Rabbits
Snakes
Insect-eating
birds
Grasses,
Shrubs
Hawks
Frogs
Lice
Insects
Seed-eating
Deer birds
Which statement regarding organisms in this food web is correct?
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There would be more snakes than pocket gophers,
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There would be more coyotes than rabbits.
There would be more insects than insect eating birds.
There would be more hawks than seed eating birds.

C. There would be more insects than insect eating birds.

Explanation:

In a food web, the number of predators are always less than the number of preys. This balances the food web, as shown in the diagram below. The number of predators increase when there are more prey, and the number of prey decrease when there are more predators.

Out of all the options, this was the only one which states that the number of the prey is higher than the number of the predator.