Consider the following food chain: Plants are eaten by grasshoppers, which are eaten by mice, which are eaten by snakes. What will happen to the other members of the food chain if the grasshoppers are removed?

Grasshoppers eat plants, so removing them means fewer plants are eaten and the number of plants will increase. Mice lose their food source, so their numbers will decrease; with fewer mice available as food, the number of snakes will also decrease. This matches choice a: plants increase, mice decrease, and snakes decrease.

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