Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Give an example of a four step food chain operating in grassland. Name the secondary consumer in this food chain
Advertisements
उत्तर
Grass → Insect → Frog → Eagle
The secondary consumer in this food chain is the frog.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
In a food chain of frog, grass, insect and snake, assign trophic level to frog.
Give reason to justify the following: The existence of decomposers is essential in a biosphere.
List two biotic components of a biosphere.
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?
What are planktons?
Which of the following belong to the same trophic level?
Goat ; Spider ; Plants ; Hawk ; Rat
What is the role of decomposers in the ecosystem?
Write one or two word for the following statement/definition :
Organisms which depend on the producers for food either directly or indirectly
The decomposers in an ecosystem ______.
Which of the following 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
The following is a food chain that ends with human :
Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.
Why are there rarely more than five links (or five organisms) in a food chain?
Name and state the law given by Lindeman which tells us how much energy entering a particular trophic level of organisms is available for trasnsfer to the next higher trophic level.
An aquatic food chain comprises of the organisms like tadpoles, weeds, fish and water beetles. The organism which gets the minimum energy through this food chain is :
(a) water beetles
(b) tadpoles
(c) weeds
(d) fish
A food chain consists of fish, larvae, phytoplanktons and birds. The level of pesticides in water in which the fish, larvae and phytoplanktons live is quite high.
Write the food chain comprising all the organisms mentioned above.
Primary consumers that eat plants are called _______.
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
Assertion (A): The energy which passes to the herbivores does not come back to autotrophs.
Reason (R): The flow of energy in a food chain is unidirectional.
According to the 10% law, if producers in an ecosystem have 10,000 units of energy, approximately how much energy is available to primary consumers?
Quaternary consumers are described as:
