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What forms the first trophic level in any ecosystem?

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Important Questions on Environment & Ecology

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The food web is
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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 6 - Environment & Ecology>Exercise 1>Q 37
The organisms who can synthesise their food by interacting with their environment are called
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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 6 - Environment & Ecology>Exercise 1>Q 38
The amount of energy as it passes on from one trophic level to other in an ecosystem
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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 6 - Environment & Ecology>Exercise 1>Q 39
In which of the following the maximum plant diversity is found?
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If the amount of energy or biomass or the population of organisms at successive trophic levels is plotted as horizontal bars one above the other, it produces a
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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 6 - Environment & Ecology>Exercise 1>Q 41

Consider the following

1. Bioaccumulation is the increase in concentration of a pollutant from the environment to the first organism in a food chain.

2. Biomagnification is increase in concentration of a pollutant from one link in a food chain to another.

Which of the statements given above is/are true?

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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 6 - Environment & Ecology>Exercise 1>Q 42
The ecological pyramid of numbers or biomass has a lesson for us that we should have ······ food habits.
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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 6 - Environment & Ecology>Exercise 1>Q 43
The variability among living organisms from all sources· including terrestrial, marine and other ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part which includes diversity within species, between species of ecosystems refers to