Assertion: In a food chain, members of successive higher levels are fewer in number.
Reason: Number of organisms at any trophic level depends upon the availability of organisms which serve as food at the lower level.
1. Both Assertion & Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
2. Both Assertion & Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
3. Assertion is true statement but Reason is false.
4. Both Assertion and Reason are false statements.
A. | The base of each pyramid represents the producers or the first trophic level while the apex represents tertiary or top-level consumer |
B. | The pyramid of energy is always upright |
C. | A given species can occupy only one trophic level in the same ecosystem at the same time |
D. | The pyramid of number in tree ecosystem is upright |
E. | Saprophytes are not given any place in ecological pyramids |
List I | List II |
A. Primary consumers | I. Top carnivore |
B. Tertiary consumers | II. Herbivore |
C. Producers | III. Carnivore |
D. Secondary consumers | IV. Plants |
Statement I: | Standing state is the amount of inorganic nutrients found in an ecosystem and it varies on a seasonal basis |
Statement II: | Standing crop is the mass of living matter in an ecosystem and it tends to be more readily apparent in terrestrial environment as compared to aquatic environment |
Statement I: | The pyramid of energy is always upright, can never be inverted |
Statement II: | When energy flows from one trophic level to next trophic level, some energy is always lost as heat |