In a habitat, there are two types of birds. One type of bird has long legs and eats fish. The other type of bird has short legs and eats insects.

Question

When a drought hits this habitat, the insect population is not impacted but the fish population rapidly declines because of all the ponds dry up. Sue to these environment changes, the birds with long legs will ___________ while the birds with short legs will ________

Both options for these blanks are, “not struggle to survive and increase in population size” and “struggle to survive and decrease in population size”

Answer 1

struggle to survive and decrease in population size
not struggle to survive and increase in population size