As part of your research project, you travel to an island to learn more about the habitats and relationships of spiders, centipedes, and insects. You and your assistant plot out five different areas of the island and count the numbers of spiders, centipedes, and insects living in each plot. Your results show the following: Plot Insects Spiders Centipedes1300254242617103147152147397805791393The most plausible explanation for the high number of spiders in plot 4 is:
A. The flies and spiders worked together to eliminate the centipedes.
B. There are no centipedes to prey on the spiders and there are abundant flies upon which to feed.
C. There are too many flies overall.
D. The spiders preyed on the centipedes and ignored the flies.
Answer: B
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