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प्रश्न
The following statement is true or false :
Secondary consumers and tertiary consumers, both are carnivores.
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उत्तर
True.
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संबंधित 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
Fill in the following blank with suitable word :
In nature, all green plants are............ whereas animals are consumers.
Write down a food chain in the sea.
Write one or two word for the following statement/definition :
Each level of food chain where transfer of energy takes place
The decomposers in an ecosystem ______.
What will happen if deer is missing in the food chain given below?
Grass → Deer → Tiger
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
Which of the following is not a producer?
(a) grass
(b) zooplankton
(c) phytoplankton
(d) paddy
What would happen to the number of rabbits and grass plants if the number of foxes decreased?
Match the terms given in column I with the terms given in column II and column III having the same meaning :
| Column I | Column II | Column III |
| (1) Secondary consumer | Herbivore | 1st trophic level |
| (2) Primary consume | Autotroph | 3rd trophic level |
| (3) Producer | Carnivore | 4th trophic level |
| (4) Tertiary consumer | Large carnivore | 2nd trophic level |
Why are there rarely more than five links (or five organisms) in a food chain?
Name two predators of snakes in a food web operating in a forest ecosystem.
Consider the following food chain
(i) Plants → Mice → Snakes → Hawks
(ii) Plants → Mice →Hawks
If energy available at the producer level in both the food chains is 100 J, in which case will hawks get more energy as food and by how much? Justify your answer.:
Calculate the amount of energy that will be available to big fish in the following food chain, if 10,000 J of energy is available to small algae from the sun :
Small algae → Zooplankton → Fish → Big fish
How much energy will be available to hawks in the food chain comprising hawk, snake, paddy and mice, if 10,000 J of energy is available to paddy from the sun?
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
Most of the water surface of a lake is covered with algae. This algae is part of the food chain which also includes small fish, bird, larvae and big fish. Which of the following will obtain the maximum energy?
(a) big fish
(b) bird
(c) larvae
(d) small fish
In addition to wheat plants, a crop field ecosystem has organisms such as snake, peacock, eagle and mice. If the wheat plants are sprayed with pesticides periodically, which of the following will have the minimum concentration of pesticides in the body?
(a) snake
(b) eagle
(c) mice
(d) peacock
Bacteria and fungi are called decomposers.
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.
