Question

Given below is a list of autotrophs and heterotrophs. With your knowledge about food chain, establish various linkages between the organisms on the principle of ‘eating and being eaten’. What is this inter-linkage established known as?

Algae, hydrilla, grasshopper, rat, squirrel, crow, maize plant, deer, rabbit, lizard, wolf, snake, peacock, phytoplankton, crustaceans, whale, tiger, lion, sparrow, duck, crane, cockroach, spider, toad, fish, leopard, elephant, goat, Nymphaea, Spirogyra.

Answer 1

Primary Producer’s (First trophic level): Algae, hydrilla, maize plant, phytoplankton, Nymphaea, Spirogyra.

Primary Consumer (Second trophic level): crustaceans, grasshopper, deer, mouse, squirrel, rabbit, elephant, goat.

Secondly Consumer (Third trophic level): spider, cockroach, lizard, wolf, snake, toad, fish, crane. Top carnivore (Fourth trophic level): lion, tiger.