61. Given below is a list of autotrophs and heterotrophs. With your knowledge about the food chain, establish various linkages between the organisms on the principle of ‘eating and being eaten’. What is this inter-linkage established known as? Algae, hydrilla, grasshopper, rat, squirrel, crow, maize plant, deer, rabbit, lizard, wolf, snake, peacock, phytoplankton, crustaceans, whale, tiger, lion, sparrow, duck, crane, cockroach, spider, toad, fish, leopard, elephant, goat, Nymphaea, Spirogyra.
61. Given below is a list of autotrophs and heterotrophs. With your knowledge about the food chain, establish various linkages between the organisms on the principle of ‘eating and being eaten’. What is this inter-linkage established known as? Algae, hydrilla, grasshopper, rat, squirrel, crow, maize plant, deer, rabbit, lizard, wolf, snake, peacock, phytoplankton, crustaceans, whale, tiger, lion, sparrow, duck, crane, cockroach, spider, toad, fish, leopard, elephant, goat, Nymphaea, Spirogyra.

Solution – t his linkage established is known as a food web .

Primary Producer’s (Tropic level I): Algae, Hydrilla, a maize plant, Phytoplankton, Nymphaea, and Spirogyra.

Primary Consumer (Tropic level II): Crustaceans, grasshopper, deer, mouse, squirrel, rabbit, elephant, goat.

Secondly Consumer (Tropic level III): Spider, cockroach, lizard, wolf, snake, toad, fish, and crane.

Top carnivore (Tropic level IV): Lion, Tiger. They are topmost carnivores.