Julieanne Alderete
Desert
Desert Food Web
Camels, rabbits, and kangaroo rats are primary consumers. Common king snakes and fennecs are secondary consumers. Tertiary consumers are king boa snakes. Producers are the insects. Decomposers are plants, bacteria, mushrooms, and fungi.
Mutualism Commensalism Paratism
M~ An animal might eat plant fruit which is the Kangaroo rat
C~ A cactus wren builds its nest in a cactus to protect themseves which is red-tail hawk
P~ Fleas on a Kangaroo rat. The fleas benefit by drinking the blood of the kangaroo rat.
Kangaroo rats
Kangaroo rats are small rodents of genus Dipodomys are native to western North America. The common name derives from bipedal form.
Red-Tail hawk
The red-tail is one of the largest hawks, usually weighing between two nd four pounds.
Scorpion
Most Scorpion stings are not considered life threatening to humans the exception is the sting of the dark scorpion, the most venomous in the United States.
Human Impacts and Organisms
~Many ways humans impact the enviroment is positive and negative. The positive way is by cleaning the desert and don't loiter because some animals in the desert can eat something there not suppose to and they could die.
Kangaroo rat plays the role of prey and predator, the kangaroo rat eats the cactus and a snake eats the kangaroo rat. Lizards eat the insects and the plants, while the snake also eats the lizard. The red-tail hawk only plays the role of the predator, it eats both the lizard and the snake.