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Questions : 10% law of flow of energy in ecosystem was proposed by

(a) Carl Mobius

(b) Tansley

(c) Lindeman

(d) Darwin

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

Lindeman proposed the 10% law of flow of energy in ecosystem. According to this law only 10% energy passed from one trophic level to other in a food chain.

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Question : 1

'Project Tiger' in India was started in

a) 1972

b) 1981

c) 1970

d) 1985

Answer: (a)

Question : 2

Which one of the following animals may occupy more than one trophic levels in the same ecosystem at the same time?

a) Lion

b) Goat

c) Sparrow

d) Frog

Answer: (c)

It feeds upon grains hence called primary consumer and can also feed on insects hence called secondary consumer at the same time in the same ecosystem.

Question : 3

Which of the following is the most stable ecosystem?

a) Desert

b) Forest

c) Mountain

d) Ocean

Answer: (d)

2/3 parts of each is ocean here, various types of food chains form food webs. This ecosystem is most stable due to buffering action of water.

Question : 4

Which most often limits the primary productivity of the ecosystem ?

a) Oxygen

b) Consumers

c) Solar radiation/light

d) Nitrogen

Answer: (c)

Question : 5

More than 70% of world’s freshwater is contained in

a) glaciers and mountains

b) antarctica

c) polar ice

d) greenland

Answer: (c)

Three fourth the surface of the earth is covered by oceans which contain 97.5% of total water.

It is marine water with about 3.5% salt content only 2.5% is fresh water which occurs on land.

Most of this water (1.97%) occurs from frozen ice caps and glaciers, and 0.5% of fresh water occurs as groundwater.

Rivers and lakes contain 0.02%, soil 0.01% while the atmosphere possesses 0.001% of water as vapours.

Question : 6

Which one is nature's cleaner ?

a) Producers

b) Decomposers and scavengers

c) Consumers

d) Symbionts

Answer: (b)

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