An aquatic food web consists of phytoplankton → krill → seals → sharks. The removal of which component is MOST LIKELY to cause an immediate impact on the food web?
A) phytoplankton
B) krill
C) seals
D) sharks
The answer is A phytoplankton because if there is no phytoplankton then the krill will have nothing to eat, and if the krill die out the the seals will have nothing to eat and they will also die out and so on to the sharks.