The document discusses the niche and habitat of white-tailed deer. It describes their feeding habits, life cycle, predators, and role in the food web. Water quality data from a stream is analyzed, showing the stream has low pollution levels and is a healthy habitat for deer. Factors like nitrates, phosphates, pH, and dissolved oxygen are compared between the stream, marsh, and abandoned mine, finding the stream best supports the deer.

1. White Tailed Deer Jesse Murray Biology I Pd. 4

3. Food Chain of Assigned Organism An oak tree, being a producer, makes acorns, of which a deer will eat. A deer is a primary consumer and a herbivore, only eating plants. The secondary producer, possibly a coyote, will eat the deer. After the coyote dies, bacteria will break down the organic material. Producer Autotroph Primary Consumer Herbivore Secondary Consumer Carnivore Decomposer Bacteria

4. Food Web With White Tailed Deer Clover Coyote White Tailed Deer Frog Grasshopper Corn Snake A producer, in this case a clover, will be eaten by a primary consumer, which could be a white tailed deer or a grasshopper. A deer does not have many predators, and is therefore eaten by a tertiary consumer, in this case, a coyote. The grasshopper, though, has many predators and so consumed by a secondary consumer, which could be corn snake or a frog. These, then, are also consumed by the coyote, the tertiary consumer.