Grasses are the dominant producers in the prairie ecosystem. Mice eat the grass seeds, snakes eat the mice, and hawks eat the snakes. The mass of a hawk is around 500 grams. In this ecosystem, how many hawks can be supported by 250,000 kilograms of producers? Recall that 1 kilogram is equivalent to 1,000 grams. (1 point) Responses 5,000 5,000 500 500 250 250 0.5

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Grasses are the dominant producers in the prairie ecosystem. Mice eat the grass seeds, snakes eat the mice, and hawks eat the snakes. The mass of a hawk is around 500 grams. In this ecosystem, how many hawks can be supported by 250,000 kilograms of producers? Recall that 1 kilogram is equivalent to 1,000 grams. (1 point) Responses 5,000 5,000 500 500 250 250 0.5

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered

5000

Answer 2

Hilbert Ryder answered

why 5000 and not 500

Answer 3

Bot GPT 3.5 answered

To calculate the number of hawks that can be supported by the ecosystem, we first need to determine how many grams of producers are available.

Given that there are 250,000 kilograms of producers, we need to convert this to grams:
250,000 kilograms x 1,000 grams/kg = 250,000,000 grams

Now, to determine the number of hawks that can be supported, we need to see how many 500-gram hawks can be supported by 250,000,000 grams of producers:
250,000,000 grams / 500 grams/hawk = 500,000 hawks

So, the correct answer is 500,000 hawks.