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प्रश्न
Construct a short foodchain, ending with man.
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उत्तर
Plants → Man
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What will be the amount of energy available to the organisms of the 2nd trophic level of a food chain if the energy available at the first trophic level is 10,000 joules?
List two main components of ecosystem?
Will the impact of removing all the organisms in a trophic level be different for different trophic levels? Can the organisms of any trophic level be removed without causing any damage to the ecosystem?
In the following food chain, 20,000 J of energy was available to the plants. How much energy would be available to man in this chain?
Plants → Sheep → Man
Explain how the pesticides enter a food chain and subsequently get into our body.
A food chain represents a unidirectional flow of X. What is X?
Write down a food chain in the sea.
The sea water contains water beetles, tadpole, fish and weeds.
Write a food chain comprising all the given organisms.
The sea water contains water beetles, tadpole, fish and weeds.
Which organisms are (i) predators, and (ii) prey?
Explain why, a food chain usually cannot have more than three or four steps.
What provides the energy which then flows through a food chain?
(a) glucose
(b) oxygen
(c) respiration
(d) sunlight
Which of the following limits the number of trophic levels in a food chain?
(a) insufficient food supply from producer level
(b) decrease in energy at higher trophic levels
(c) increase in the number of organisms at higher trophic levels
(d) accumulation of harmful chemicals at higher trophic levels
What percentage of sun's energy falling on the leaves of green plants is utilised by the plants in the process of photosynthesis and stored as chemical energy of food?
(a) 99 per cent
(b) 10 per cent
(c) 1 per cent
(d) 20 per cent
What are decomposers? What will be the consequence if the decomposers are completely eradicated from an ecosystem? Give justification in support of your answer.
In an ecosystem, herbivores represent ______.
In a food chain grasshopper gets energy by eating frog.
Accumulation of non-biodegradable pesticides in the food chain in increasing amount at each higher trophic level is known as
Which group of organisms are not constituents of a food chain?
- Grass, lion, rabbit, wolf
- Plankton, man, fish, grasshopper
- Wolf, grass, snake, tiger
- Frog, snake, eagle, grass, grasshopper
DDT was sprayed in a lake to regulate breeding of mosquitoes. How would it affect the trophic levels in the following food chain associated with a lake? Justify your answer.
In the following food chain, vertical arrows indicate the energy lost to the environment and horizontal arrows indicate energy transferred to the next trophic level. Which one of the three vertical arrows (A, C and E) and which one of the two horizontal arrows (B and D) will represent more energy transfer? Give reason for your answer.

A food chain in a forest ecosystem
