Ecological Pyramids
Ecological Pyramids: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Ecological Pyramids, Types of Ecological Pyramids, Pyramid of Numbers, Pyramid of Biomass & Pyramid of Energy etc.
Important Questions on Ecological Pyramids
Which of the following is the given ecological pyramid?

Given below is one of the types of ecological pyramids.
This type represents:

The pyramid of energy is always upright as the energy can flow only from higher trophic level to lower trophic level.

An ecological pyramid is a graphical representation made to show the biomass at each trophic level in an ecosystem.




In an ecosystem of big trees, the pyramid (of numbers) is _____ type.



In a food chain, the total amount of living material is depicted by


Idea of productivity of an ecosystem can be obtained from

Pyramid of number in a tree ecosystem with predatory food chain is


Standing crop is -
i) Biomass in a unit area
ii) Number of the living organism in a unit area
iii) Amount of nutrient such as carbon, nitrogen, calcium in the unit area
iv) Amount of Detritus in the unit area

The pyramid of number for a grassland ecosystem is

The greatest biomass of autotrophs in the oceans is that of

The pyramid which cannot be inverted in a stable ecosystem is that of

In grass-deer-tiger food chain, grass biomass is one tonne. The tiger biomass shall be
