CBSE 2023 · Region 3 · Set 1 · Q19 · 2 marks
Given below is a food web that involves nine organisms.
(a)Identify two producers and two carnivores shown in the food web.(b)Is it possible to make an ecological pyramid depicting this food web ? Give reason in support of your answer.
Given below is a food web that involves nine organisms.
(a)
Identify two producers and two carnivores shown in the food web.
(b)
Is it possible to make an ecological pyramid depicting this food web ? Give reason in support of your answer.
Marking-scheme solution
(a) •Producers: $\displaystyle 1$/$\displaystyle 2$/$\displaystyle 3$
Carnivores: $\displaystyle 6$/$\displaystyle 7$/$\displaystyle 8$/$\displaystyle 9$
(b)
No
Pyramid does not accommodate food web
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Yes
In the given food web no organism occupy more than one trophic level
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