MEDIUM
10th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Consider the following food chains :
(i) Plants Mice Snakes Hawks
(ii) Plants Mice Hawks
If energy available at the producer level in both the food chains is 100 J, in which case will hawks get more energy as food and by how much? Justify your answer.

Important Questions on Our Environment
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Explain why, a food chain usually cannot have more than three or four steps.

MEDIUM
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Calculate the amount of energy that will be available to big fish in the following food chain, if of energy is available to small algae from the sun:
Small algae Zooplankton Fish Big fish(0.1J/10 J/100J/1000J)

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Name and state the law given by Lindeman which tells us how much energy entering a particular trophic level of organisms is available for transfer to the next higher trophic level.

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10th CBSE
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How much energy will be available to hawks in the food chain comprising hawk, snake, paddy and mice, if 10,000J of energy is available to paddy from the sun? (100/ 10/ 1/ 0.1/ 0.01)

EASY
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What provides the energy which then flows through a food chain?

EASY
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Which pollutant released into the air during refrigeration and air-conditioning is the greatest contributor to the depletion of ozone layer?

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In the food chain given below, if the amount of energy available at the fourth trophic level is , what was the energy available at the producer level?
Grass Grasshopper Frog Snake Hawk

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Which of the following limits the number of trophic levels in a food chain?
