The minimum requirement for an ecosystem to recycle nutrients present in it would be:

1.  producers
2.  producers and decomposers
3.  producers, primary consumers, and decomposers
4.  producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers

Subtopic:  Decomposition |
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Net primary productivity is the gross primary productivity minus:

1.  that which is consumed by herbivores
2.  that which is consumed by the producer in metabolism
3.  secondary productivity
4.  loss due to mortality
Subtopic:  Ecosystem Productivity |
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Most organic material is converted to carbon dioxide, which can then be utilized in primary production by:
1. autotrophs
2. secondary consumers
3. herbivores
4. carnivores

Subtopic:  Energy Flow |

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The best way to describe an ecosystem would be that they are:

1.  processors of energy and transformers of matter.
2.  processors of matter and transformers of energy.
3.  processors of matter and energy.
4.  transformers of matter but not of energy.

Subtopic:  Introduction |
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The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is:
1. increasing
2. decreasing
3. holding steady
4. fluctuating wildly

Subtopic:  Mineral Cycling & Ecosystem Services (OLD NCERT) |
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The ecosystem that can survive in the absence of the Sun would be:

1.tropical rainforest2.tundra
3.benthic ocean4.desert

Subtopic:  Components & Types of Ecosystems | Energy Flow |
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An important feature of the phosphorus cycle is that its reservoir is in:
1. aquifers
2. soil and rocks
3. the atmosphere
4. the sun

Subtopic:  Mineral Cycling & Ecosystem Services (OLD NCERT) |
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Most organic carbon on Earth is found in:
1. Atmosphere
2. Oceans
3. Biomass
4. Sedimentary rocks

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The generation of biomass of heterotrophic (consumer) organisms in a system is termed:

1.biogeochemical cycles2.net primary productivity
3.gross primary productivity4.secondary productivity

Subtopic:  Ecosystem Productivity |
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In an open ocean, the pyramid of biomass is often inverted. How can this support higher trophic levels?

1.  The food produced by primary producers is of high quality
2.  The primary producers grow and reproduce at high rates
3.  Primary producers are very abundant.
4.  The predators at higher trophic levels are very efficient
Subtopic:  Ecological Pyramids |
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