Exams › NEET › Biology

Who proposed the term ecosystem?

1. Odum
2. Gardner
3. Warming
4. Tansley

Correct answer: Tansley

Solution

Arthur Tansley proposed the term "ecosystem" in 1935 to describe the whole complex of organisms and physical environment interacting together. The other names are associated with ecology, but not with coining this term.

Related NEET Biology questions

• Succession on sand dune is
• The possible beneficial affect of grazing animals is the
• Assertion Forest influences local air circulation and may thus retain solid suspensions and gaseous elements. Reason Forests control the wind velocity and air flows.
• Mists are produced by:
• How many organisms in the list given below are autotrophs? Lactobacillus, Nostoc, Chara, Nitrosomonas Nitrobacter, Streptomyces, Sacharomyces Trypanosoma, Porphyra, Wolfia
• In autogenic succession

⚔️ Practice NEET Biology free + battle 1v1 →