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Mention if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

(a) Snakes are primary consumers (T/F)

(b) Some humans are strictly primary consumers & some others are of other types of consumers also (T/F)

(c) No ecosystem can survive without light (T/F)

(d) Cattle go to ponds for drinking water, so they are a constituent of pond ecosystem(T/F)

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(a) Snakes are primary consumers (F)  No the snakes are not primary consumers as snakes eat rats and frogs as these are  primary consumers which eat plant products. As snakes eat the primary consumers so  the snakes are secondary consumers.

(b) Some humans are strictly primary consumers and some others are of other  types of consumers also (T)  It is true that humans are vegetarians and eat plants or plant products. So these  humans are vegetariBut there are certain humans which eat the flesh or eggs of other  animals. These are carnivores and humans living plants are called Herbivores.  

(c) No ecosystem can survive without light (T)  The plants and animals and micro-organisms present at a place and interacting with the  atmosphere like sun light, air, water, soil and warmth and dwelling at a place like, pond,  desert, forest, rock form the ecosystem as pond ecosystem, desert ecosystem forest  ecosystem. So ecosystem cannot survive without the presence of light. As the flora  (plants) living in that ecosystem can only make food in the presence of light and the  animals (Fauna) living in that ecosystem get the food from the plants of that ecosystem.  So flora in that area cannot survive in that area without light and animals living in that  area will not get the food and the plants and animals will perish and the ecosystem  cannot survive.  

(d) Cattle go to ponds for drinking water, so they are a constituent of pond  ecosystem (F)  Cattles likes tigers, lions, cows, deers, buffaloes, go to take water from the pond and  return to their dwellings as tigers, deers etc. come to the forest so they form a forest  ecosystem. But plants like hydrilla, vallineria, lotus etc. and animals like frogs, beetles,  fish live in the pond and form the pond ecosystem. But animals like buffalo which come  only to take~water cannot form a part of the pond ecosystem.

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