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प्रश्न
Name the organisms belonging to the second and the fourth trophic levels in the food chain comprising the following :
Frogs, Plants, Snakes, Hawk, Insects
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उत्तर
The second trophic level consists of insects, and the fourth trophic level consists of snakes.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Which of the following are always at the second tropic level of food chains?
Give reason to justify the following: The existence of decomposers is essential in a biosphere.
Which of the following constitute a food-chain?
The following statement is true or false :
Secondary consumers and tertiary consumers, both are carnivores.
Which of the following belong to the same trophic level?
Goat ; Spider ; Plants ; Hawk ; Rat
Which of the following represents a possible food chain found in a pond :
| Primary producers |
Primary consumers | Secondary consumers |
| (a) green algae | fish | mosquito larvae |
| (b) fish | green algae | mosquito larvae |
| (c) mosquito larvae | fish | green algae |
| (d) green algae | mosquito larvae | fish |
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(a) insect
(b) snake
(c) frog
(d) grass
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- Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.
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How does this food chain differ form a usual food chain involving human such as : plants → goat → human?
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Name the organism which Y could be.
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Fill in the following blank with suitable word :
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What does garbage consist of?
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- Name the type of ecosystems that exist in food chains (b) and (c).
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