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प्रश्न
What is a trophic level?
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उत्तर
Trophic levels are the feeding positions of organisms within a food chain, with producers at the base, followed by herbivores and successive levels of carnivores. Each level represents a stage in the transfer of energy and food. An organism can occupy multiple trophic levels depending on what it eats.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
List two biotic components of a biosphere.
In the following food chain, plants provide 500 J of energy to rats. How much energy will be available to hawks from snakes?
Plants → Rats → Snakes → Hawks
The following statement is true or false :
Secondary consumers and tertiary consumers, both are carnivores.
Write an aquatic food chain.
Which organisms belong to third and fourth trophic levels in the food chain comprising the following?
Rats, Plants, Hawk, Snakes
Fill in the following blank with suitable word :
A series of organisms, each of which feeds on the next organism, the beginning of which is a green plant, is called a .............
What will happen if we kill all the organisms in one trophic level?
What is the difference between the food habits of organisms belonging to the first and the third trophic levels? Give one example each of the organisms belonging to these two trophic levels.
Write down a food chain in the sea.
At which trophic level a person is feeding when he is eating roasted chicken.
Which of the following are decomposers of dead organisms?
| Bacteria | Fungi | Viruses |
| (a) no | yes | yes |
| (b) yes | no | yes |
| (c) yes | yes | no |
| (d) yes | yes | yes |
In a food chain, the third trophic level is always occupied by :
(a) carnivores
(b) herbivores
(c) decomposers
(d) producers
One of the following is not a consumer. This one is :
(a) giraffe
(b) antelope
(c) algae
(d) alligator
The sea water contains water beetles, tadpole, fish and weeds.
Which organism is a secondary consumer?
Some hunters are roaming in the plush green forest of Africa. They spot a deer and kill it. They decide to roast the deer there and then and eat it. When the hunters had just finished enjoying the feast of roasted deer, a lion attacks them. The lion kills one of the hunters and eats his flesh.
(a) write a food chain which provides food to lion in this case.
(b) Which animal (other than deer) the lion could look for food if he did not get the hunter as prey?
(c) Which other animal in the forest could have been in place of lion?
(d) How does the above food chain differ form the food chain such as : plants → goat → man?
What would happen to the number of rabbits and grass plants if the number of foxes decreased?
Give one example of a food chain having four organisms. Below each organism write the three appropriate terms from the part (a) above which you think it represents.
If 5 joules of energy is available at producer level (plants), then how much energy will be transferred to the lion in the following food chain?
Plants → Goat → Lion
With the help of a food chain, explain how biological magnification of harmful chemicals can occur.
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
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.
In the food chain given below, if the amount of energy available at fourth trophic level is 5 kJ, what was the energy available at the producer level?
Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Hawk
(a) 500 kJ
(b) 50 kJ
(c) 5000 kJ
(d) 5 kJ
A forest ecosystem having a lot of green plants has some foxes, lions and rabbits in it.
(a) Write a food chain comprising all the four organisms mentioned above.
(b) Name (i) one herbivore, and (ii) two carnivores, in this food chain.
(c) Name the link which is a predator as well as a prey.
(d) Name (i) second trophic level, and (ii) third trophic level.
(e) Which link of this food chain can feed on second trophic level as well as third trophic level, independently?
(f) If the sun provides 1000 J of energy to the plants, then how much energy will be transferred to fox through the food chain.
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.
Your mother always thought that fruit juices are very healthy for everyone. One day she read in the newspaper that some brands of fruit juices in the market have been found to contain certain level of pesticides in them. She got worried as pesticides are injurious to our health.
(a) How would you explain to your mother about fruit juices getting contaminated with pesticides?
(b) It is said that when these harmful pesticides enter our body as well as in the bodies of other organisms they get accumulated and beyond a limit cause harm and damage to our organs. Name the phenomenon and write about it.
Arrange the following in a correct sequence and form a food chain
Rabbit → Carrot → Eagle → Snake
Food chains are very important for the survival of most species.
If 10,000 J solar energy falls on green plants in a terrestrial ecosystem, what percentage of solar energy will be converted into food energy?
Food chains are very important for the survival of most species.
Matter and energy are two fundamental inputs of an ecosystem. Movement of:
What will happen if deer is missing in the food chain given below?
Grass → Deer → Tiger
