Types of Nutrition in Animals
Types of Nutrition in Animals: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as scavenging, nutrition in amoebae, carnivores, classification of animals based on food habits, omnivores, etc.
Important Questions on Types of Nutrition in Animals
Give two examples of the saprozoic mode of nutrition.

Choose an endoparasitic animal that lives inside its host.

Hookworms are endoparasites that live outside their host.

What is endoparasitic nutrition?

Give two examples of endoparasitic nutrition animals.

Give two examples of ectoparasitic animals.

Define ectoparasitic nutrition.

Roundworms are examples of ectoparasites.

Saprozoic animals get their nutrition from dead and decaying matter.

Choose an ectoparasite animal from the given options.

The mode of nutrition in spiders is

Saprozoic animals cannot digest solid food material.

The A, B and C are three living organisms. The organism A is a unicellular fungus which can live without air. It is used in the commercial production of an organic compound P from molasses. The organism B is a unicellular animal which lives in water and feeds and moves by using pseudopodia. It breathes through an organelle Q. The organism C is a tiny animal which acts as a carrier of the malarial parasite. It breathes and respires through a kind of tiny holes R and air-tubes S in its body.
What is organism B and organelle Q?

Eagles and vultures decompose the dead bodies of animals.

Decomposers are the least important components of an ecosystem.

Choose the appropriate word from the given options.
Give an example of a decomposer. (Earthworm/Roundworm)

What will happen if the tigers and crocodiles are domesticated?

Omnivorous animals are those that consume both plants and animals for food.

Human beings come under the classification of_____.

What do you generally understand by food habits? Classify animals based on food habits.
