Question

this food chain shows organisms in a grassland ecosystem.
slender wheatgrass → yellow - pine chipmunk → long - tailed weasel → red fox
use the food chain to complete the text below.
if the population of long - tailed weasels increases, yellow - pine chipmunks will be dropdown likely to survive and produce offspring. so, the population of yellow - pine chipmunks will likely dropdown.

Explanation:

In the food chain (slender wheatgrass → yellow - pine chipmunk → long - tailed weasel → red fox), the long - tailed weasel is a predator of the yellow - pine chipmunk. If the population of long - tailed weasels (predator) increases, the yellow - pine chipmunks (prey) will face more predation. So they will be less likely to survive and reproduce, and their population will likely decrease.

Answer:

First blank: less
Second blank: decrease