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प्रश्न
Why are there rarely more than five links (or five organisms) in a food chain?
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उत्तर
There are rarely more than five links (or five organisms) in a food chain because, according to the 10 per cent law, only 10 per cent of the available energy is transferred to the next trophic level. So, at the higher trophic levels, the amount of energy is reduced to such an extent that it becomes insufficient for an organism to sustain itself.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
List two important roles play in the environment by decomposers.
What are trophic levels? Give an example of a food chain and state the different trophic levels in it.
What will happen if we kill all the organisms in one trophic level?
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Plants → Deer → Lion
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
Consider the food chain :
Grass → Deer → Lion
What will happen if all the lions are removed from the above food chain?
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?
The following is a food chain that ends with human :
Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.
A food chain occurring in the sea which provides food for many people can be written as :
phytoplankton → zooplankton → X → Y
Name two zooplanktons.
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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
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Primary consumers that eat plants are called _______.
Bacteria and fungi are called decomposers.
Write the importance of the food chain.
Give some examples for Biodegradable and Non-biodegradable waste.
| S. No. | Biodegradable waste | Non-biodegradable waste |
| 1. | Food Waste | Plastic Bottles |
| 2. | ||
| 3. | ||
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| 5. |
______ are organisms that are able to produce their own organic food.
In the following food chain, only 2J of energy was available to the peacocks. How much energy would have been present in Grass? Justify your answer.
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Reason (R): The flow of energy in a food chain is unidirectional.
