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    Our Environment

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    The document discusses various topics related to ecosystems and the environment, including: 1) Key terms like the food chain and the relationship between abiotic and biotic factors. 2) The components of an environment and examples of artificial ecosystems. 3) How energy transfer is unidirectional through a food chain while biochemical transfer is cyclic. 4) Issues like plastic waste pollution and the importance of food chains in maintaining ecosystems.

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    The document discusses various topics related to ecosystems and the environment, including: 1) Key terms like the food chain and the relationship between abiotic and biotic factors. 2) The components of an environment and examples of artificial ecosystems. 3) How energy transfer is unidirectional through a food chain while biochemical transfer is cyclic. 4) Issues like plastic waste pollution and the importance of food chains in maintaining ecosystems.

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    The document discusses various topics related to ecosystems and the environment, including: 1) Key terms like the food chain and the relationship between abiotic and biotic factors. 2) The components of an environment and examples of artificial ecosystems. 3) How energy transfer is unidirectional through a food chain while biochemical transfer is cyclic. 4) Issues like plastic waste pollution and the importance of food chains in maintaining ecosystems.

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    The document discusses various topics related to ecosystems and the environment, including: 1) Key terms like the food chain and the relationship between abiotic and biotic factors. 2) The components of an environment and examples of artificial ecosystems. 3) How energy transfer is unidirectional through a food chain while biochemical transfer is cyclic. 4) Issues like plastic waste pollution and the importance of food chains in maintaining ecosystems.

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    Our Environment

    1. Give scientific terms for the following-

    (a) the process of eating and being eaten

    (b) the relationship between abiotic and biotic component

    2. What is meant by environment? Name its components.

    3. What is 10% law? Give an example

    4. What is artificial ecosystem? Give two examples.

    5. Energy transfer is said to be unidirectional whereas biochemical transfer is said to


    be cyclic. Why?

    6. Why is there a need to ban the use of polythene bags?

    7. What is the significance of food chain?

    8. How would you dispose the following wastes:

    (a) domestic wastes like vegetables peels

    (b) industrial wastes

    9. Why vegetarian food habit help us in getting more energy?

    10. Write a food chain having two trophic levels.

    11. Diagrammatically represent the transfer of energy in a food chain.

    12. Consider the following food chains-

    (a) Plants mice snakes hawks

    (b) Plants mice hawks

    If energy available at the producer level in both the food chains is 100J. In which
    case will hawks get more energy and how much?

    13. Why is there a need to ban the use of polythene bags?

    14. What are the two functions of ecosystem?

    15. What percentage of solar energy is trapped and utilized by plants?


    16. What are the harmful effects of acid rain?

    17. Differentiate between abiotic and biotic components of ecosystem.

    18. Give any two methods reducing the problem of waste disposal.

    19. Give reason: “Life on earth depends on the sun.”

    20. What are trophic levels? Give an example of a food chain and state the different
    trophic level in it.

    21. What is the role of decomposers in the ecosystem?

    22. What is ozone and how does it affect any ecosystem?

    23. How can you help in reducing the problems of waste disposal? Give any two
    methods.

    24. What will happen if we kill all the organisms in one trophic level?

    25. Will the impact of removing all the organisms in a trophic level be different for
    different trophic levels? Can the organisms of any trophic level be removed without
    causing any damage to the ecosystem?

    26. If all the wastes we generate is biodegradable, will this have no impact on the
    environment?

    27. What are the problems caused by non-biodegradable wastes that we generate?

    28. What limits the number of trophic levels in a food chain.

    29. What is the harm of clay cups?

    30. State one reason to justify the position of man at the apex of most food chains?

    31. Which food chains are advantageous in terms of energy?

    32. If all the wastes we generate is bio-degradable what impact may this have on the
    environment?

    33. Write the harmful effect of ozone depletion.

    34. Which of the following will have the maximum concentration of harmful chemicals
    in its body? Peacock, frog, Grass. Snake. Grasshopper

    35. Why energy of herbivores never come back to the autographs?

    36. Give the correct sequence of various & trophic levels in a food chain.

    37. What is biological magnification and give its causes?


    38. DDT has entered food chain. Which food habit is safer- vegetarian or non-
    vegetarian?

    39. Aquarium requires regular cleaning whereas lakes normally do not. Why?

    40. How will accumulation of bio degradable waste effect our environment?

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