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Class 12 Assignment Chap Ecosystem

This document is a biology worksheet for Class 12 students at Father Agnel School, Noida, focusing on Chapter 14 - Ecosystem. It includes a series of questions covering topics such as energy flow, trophic levels, productivity, decomposition, and ecological pyramids. The questions are designed to test students' understanding of ecosystem dynamics and their components.

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Class 12 Assignment Chap Ecosystem

This document is a biology worksheet for Class 12 students at Father Agnel School, Noida, focusing on Chapter 14 - Ecosystem. It includes a series of questions covering topics such as energy flow, trophic levels, productivity, decomposition, and ecological pyramids. The questions are designed to test students' understanding of ecosystem dynamics and their components.

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FATHER AGNEL SCHOOL, NOIDA

Subject- BIOLOGY
Class 12/ 2023-24
Name: ___________________________________Class & Sec:______ Roll No.________

CHAPTER 14 – ECOSYSTEM

1. What forms the beginning in a) GFC b) DFC?


2. Which is the major conduit of energy flow in a) GFC b) DFC?
3. A given organism may occupy more than one tropic level simultaneously. Give an eg.
4. Give an eg. where ecological pyramids can be inverted.
5. What does a trophic level represent, functional level or species level
6. What percent of global carbon is found in a) oceans b ) atmosphere
7. Define the following a) productivity b) decomposition c) trophic level
8. What are the factors affecting primary productivity?
9. What are detritus and detritivores?
10. What is the importance of humus?
11. Is decomposition an aerobic or anaerobic process?
12. Why does the ecosystem require a constant supply of energy?
13. List the primary producers in an aquatic system.
14. Depict a simple GFC and show how it is connected to the DFC.
15. Define standing crop and biomass.
16. Give an eg. Of each of the following a) Primary and secondary consumer in an
aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem. B) producers in aquatic system c) secondary
and
tertiary consumers.
17. Why are the numbers of trophic levels restricted in an ecosystem?
18. How can the food and energy relationship between different trophic levels be
represented?
19. Why is the pyramid of energy always upright?
20. List some short comings of ecological pyramids.
21. The pyramid of biomass in sea is generally inverted. Why?
22. What are the important structural features of an ecosystem?
23. List the functions of an ecosystem.
24. Differentiate between a) GPP and NPP D) food chain & food web
25. What are the factors affecting the rate of decomposition? How do these factors
affect the rate?
26. Expand PAR. What percent of incident solar radiation is PAR? What % of PAR is
captured by plants?
27. Differentiate between detritivores and decomposers. What are decomposers also
known as? How do they meet their energy requirement?
28. How is a farmer benefited by the various ecosystem services?
29. Sate the first & second law of thermodynamics. How are these laws true with respect
to an ecosystem?
30. Name the three ecological pyramids.
31. List the steps of decomposition and mention the products of each step

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