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प्रश्न
The sea water contains water beetles, tadpole, fish and weeds.
Which organisms can trap solar energy to make food?
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उत्तर
Weeds can trap solar energy to make food.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Give reason to justify the following: Flow of energy in a food chain is unidirectional.
List two main components of ecosystem?
In the following food chain, 20,000 J of energy was available to the plants. How much energy would be available to man in this chain?
Plants → Sheep → Man
What are planktons?
Name the organisms belonging to the second and the fourth trophic levels in the food chain comprising the following :
Frogs, Plants, Snakes, Hawk, Insects
Write down a food chain with five links in it.
At which trophic level a person is feeding when he is eating eggs.
A student went to study a local pond. In one part of the pond she noticed tadpoles scraping at some pond weed. In another part she saw a water beetle holding a tadpole in its jaws.
(a) Construct a food chain for the pond.
(b) How many links are there in this chain?
What is a 'food web'? Show its formation.
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 |
Write the percentage of energy transferred from autotrophs to the next level in a food chain.
If a harmful chemical enters a food chain comprising cat, mice and plants, which one of these organisms is likely to have the maximum concentration of the harmful chemical in its body?
With the help of a food chain, explain how biological magnification of harmful chemicals can occur.
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
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
In a given food chain if the amount of energy at the fourth trophic level is 6 kJ, what will be the energy available at the producer level?
In an ecosystem, herbivores represent ______.
Which of the following is a logical sequence of food chain?
Analogy:
Primary Consumer: Goat, Cow:: Secondary Consumer: ______.
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
