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प्रश्न
Write down a food chain with five links in it.
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उत्तर
Grass →Grasshopper→ Frog→ Snake → Eagle
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संबंधित प्रश्न
List two main components of ecosystem?
What are planktons?
A food chain represents a unidirectional flow of X. What is X?
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.
Construct a long food chain.
Construct a short foodchain, ending with man.
The sea water contains water beetles, tadpole, fish and weeds.
Which organisms are (i) predators, and (ii) prey?
A food chain occurring in the sea which provides food for many people can be written as :
phytoplankton → zooplankton → X → Y
What could be X?
What would happen to the number of grass plants and foxes if the number of rabbits decreased?
Name the process in which a harmful chemical enters the food chain and gets concentrated at each trophic level.
The following statement is true or false :
Only 10 per cent of the light energy given by the sun is available for transfer at each higher trophic level in a food chain.
Fill in the following blank with suitable word :
Lettuce → ............. → Fox
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
The harmful chemical which is accumulating in human beings through food chain is :
(a) benzenehexachloride
(b) dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
(c) chlorofluorocarbon
(d) abscisic acid
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.
Which organism will have the maximum amount of pesticides accumulated through the food chain? What is this process known as?
What are decomposers? What will be the consequence if the decomposers are completely eradicated from an ecosystem? Give justification in support of your answer.
If 100 J energy is available at the producer level in a food chain then the energy available to the secondary consumer will be ______.
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?
