Write one or two words for each of the following statements/definitions:
(a) Each level of food chain where transfer of energy takes place
(b) The physical factors like temperature, rainfall, light, soil, air and water of an ecosystem
(c) Organisms which depend on the producers for food either directly or indirectly
(d) The physical and biological world where we live in
(e) Self-contained unit of living things and their non-living environment needing only sunlight for its functioning
a) Trophic level;
10% energy transfer takes place from one trophic level to the other
b) Abiotic components of ecosystem;
Factors like temperature, rainfall, light, soil, air and water are abiotic components of the ecosystem.
c) Consumers;
Consumers feed on producers for food.
d) Environment;
The surroundings where living beings operate i.e. the physical and biological world of living beings.
e) Ecosystem.
A community wherein organisms interact with each other and their physical environment.