Assume that a disease has caused a dramatic decrease in the population of phytoplankton. How will this decrease affect the food web? help 20 points

Because phytoplankton are near the bottom of the food chain, it would cause a domino affect where all of the higher levels are impacted. We could expect to see a decreased amount of organisms that eat the plankton and an increased competition for food.

Explanation:

Phytoplankton converts energy from the Sun into usable energy that fuels the rest of the food web. So, the higher levels of the food web won’t be able to sustain themselves if the population of phytoplankton decreases.

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According to legend, Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, researchers have taken to replicating this test in a way that the Italian scientist probably never envisioned — by dropping atoms. One of Galileo's contributions to the founding of modern science was his study of falling objects.  He turned, then, to measuring the acceleration of objects rolling down smooth ramps. The ramp "diluted" the acceleration to a value small enough to allow accurate measurements of the longer time intervals.