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Question 21
Can you give me a name? Solve each of the following riddles by writing the name of the organism and its mode of nutrition. One riddle is solved to help you.

(a) I am tall but I cannot move. I am green and can prepare my own food_____,______
(b) I live in water; people keep me in an aquarium and feed me. , ___ , ___.
(c) I am small and I can fly. I disturb your sleep, bite you and suck your blood which is my food. ___ , ___.
(d) I am white and soft. I grow well in the rainy season. Children pluck me from the ground and admire me. I absorb nutrients from decomposed dead parts of plants and animals in the soil. ___ , ___ .

Answer 1

(a) tree, autotroph
(b) fish, heterotrophy
(c) mosquito, parasite
(d) mushroom, saprophyte