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Question 12 Marks

Match the items in Column I with as many items as possible in Column II.

	column $I$	Column $II$
$1$	Grass	$(i)$ Carnivore
$2$	Deer	$(ii)$ Decomposers
$3$	cobra	$(iii)$ Primary Consumer
$4$	Vulture	$(iv)$ Autotroph
$5$	Microbes	$(v)$ Scavenger

Answer

	column $I$	Column $II$
$1$	Grass	$(iv)$ Autotroph
$2$	Deer	$(iii)$ Primary Consumer
$3$	cobra	$(i)$ Carnivore
$4$	Vulture	$(v)$ Scavenger
$5$	Microbes	$(ii)$ Decomposers

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Question 22 Marks

Define the following term and give two examples:
Predation

Answer

A predator is any consumer that kills and eats another living organism in order to obtain energy. The organism being eaten is called the prey.
Examples are Lions, Deer, Wolves, Eagles.

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Question 32 Marks

Define the following term and give two examples:
Symbiosis

Answer

It refers to relationships between organisms of different species that show on intimate association with each other. Symbiotic relationships provide atleast one of the participating species with a nutritional advantage.
Examples of Symbiosis Relationships are of Fungus and photosynthestic alga and Microbes and cattle.

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Question 42 Marks

Define the following term and give two examples. Autotrophs

Answer

These all plants produce their own food through photosynthesis and are, therefore, categorised as self$-$food producers, more technically called the autotrophs $($auto : self, troph : food$)$.
For examples : plants , algae, and bacteria

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Question 52 Marks

List any three members each of the flora and fauna of tropical rain forests.

Answer

Tropical rain forest are on western coast of India and in the north, east.
Flora : bamboos, ferns, shrubs $($Evergreen trees$)$.
Fauna : leopards, jungle cats, monkeys, snakes, flying squirrels, insects, snails, centipedes, millipedes.

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