UNIT TEST 3

1. Which one of the following is not a gaseous biogeochemical cycle in an ecosystem? a) Carbon
cycle b) Phosphorous cycle c) Sulfur cycle d) Nitrogen cycle

2. Transfer of energy from source of plants through a series of organism is known as ________________
a) Food web b) Energy cycle c) Food chain d) Biological system

3. The type of ecosystem with the highest mean plant productivity is _______________ a) Tundra b)
Temperate grassland c) Desert d) Tropical rain forest

4. An ecosystem which can be easily damaged but can recovered after some time if damaging effect
stops will be having ____________________ a) High stability and high resilience b) High stability and low
resilience c) Low stability and low resilience d) Low stability and high resilience

5. In ecosystem standing crop refers to________________ a) All the green plants b) All the non living
materials c) All living and dead animals d) All the living materials both animals and plants

6. Which ecosystem produce the highest annual net primary productivity? a) Tropical evergreen forest
b) Tropical rain forest c) Tropical deciduous forest d) Temperate evergreen forest

7. What flows through the ecosystem while matter cycles within them? a) Energy b) Force c) Pressure d)
Wind

8.Total primary production in an ecosystem is known as____________________ a) Gross final

9. Which type of ecosystem accounts for most of the net primary productivity on earth even though it
has a low average net primary productivity? a) Tropical rain forest b) Desert c) Tropical evergreen forest
d) Oceans

10. Generally ecosystem consists of how many basic components? a) One b) Two c) Three d) Four

11. The three functional components interact with each other to form__________________ a)
Environmental succession b) Environmental depression c) Environmental system d) Ecology

12. The dominant second tropic level in a lake ecosystem is_____________________ a) Phytoplankton
b) Zooplankton c) Plankton d) Benthos

13. Consumer for food that feeds on producers are known as_____________________ a) Carnivores b)
Consumers c) Herbivores d) Producers

14. The food chain from grass to hawk and again it comes back to grass with the help of fungi. In the
above explain food chain, what is grass? a) Producers b) Consumers c) Decomposers d) Energy source

15. The process in which green plants and few organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients is
known_________________ a) Chemosynthesis b) Photosynthesis c) Food chain d) Food web
16. The process of making food by certain microbes create energy by some chemical reactions is known
as_______________________ a) Photosynthesis b) Food chain c) Chemosynthesis d) Hetrosynthesis

17. Of all the species recorded, what percent do plants comprise of? a) 10 % b) 50 % c) 22 % d) 2 %

18.Of all the animal species recorded, what percent do insects comprise of? a) 7 % b) 70 % c) 50 % d) 2 %

19.Which is the most species-rich taxonomic group? a) Molluscs b) Crustaceans c) Echinoderms d)

20.Of all the vertebrate species recorded which class has the maximum number of species? a)
Amphibians b) Mammals c) Fishes d) Reptiles

21.Of all the plant species recorded which class has the minimum number of species? a) Angiosperms b)
Fungi c) Algae d) Lichens

22. How much of the world‟s land area, India has? a) 1 percent b) 40 percent c) 2.4 percent d) 80
percent

Assignment 3
1.marketable products such as animal skins, ivory, medicinal plants, honey, etc comes under_______. a)
Productive value b) Consumptive value c) Aesthetic value d) Social value

2. _______called the „lungs of the planet‟. a) Sahyadry rain forest b) Konkan rain forest c) Amazon rain
forest d) South Africa rain forest
3.Which leads to over- exploitation of natural resources? a) Greed b) Eco-friendly c) Need d) All of the
above

4.What flows through the ecosystem while matter cycles within them? a) Energy b) Force c) Pressure d)
Wind

5. Currently, how much area of the Earth‟s land surface is covered by the tropical rain forests? a) 90 %
b) 50 % c) 1 % d) 6 %

6. Which animals are badly affected when a large habitat is broken up into small fragments due to
various human activities? a) Extinct species b) Migratory species c) Non-migratory species d) Humans

7.What are the excess and the unsustainable use of resources called? a) Loss of habitat and
fragmentation b) Co-extinctions c) Invasion of alien species d) Over-exploitation .

8.What was the reason for the exploitation of the Steller‟s sea cow and the passenger pigeon? a)
Competition b) Loss of habitat c) Human activities d) Mutualistic relationships .

9.What happens when alien species are introduced unintentionally or deliberately? a) Decrease of alien
species b) Increase in habitat c) They turn invasive and cause increase species d) They turn invasive and
cause decline or extinction of indigenous species .

10.What happened when the Nile perch introduced into Lake Victoria in east Africa? a) Extinction of
trees b) Increase in the number of trees c) Extinction of cichlid fish d) Increase in the number of cichlid
fish

11. Which of the following contains chemicals like parthenin, is toxic to cattle and cause pollen allergy in
humans? a) Nile perch b) The carrot grass c) Rose d) Wheat

12. How many species of beetles are present on the Earth? a) 3,00,000 b) 30,000 c) 3,000 d) 300

13. How many species of fishes are present on Earth? a) 28,00,000 b) 28,000 c) 280 d) 28

14.Which of the following statements is true? a) Diversity exists only at the species level b) Diversity
exists only at the macromolecular level c) Diversity exists at all levels of biological organization d)
Diversity exists at the genetic level only

15.Who popularized the term biodiversity? a) Rudolf Virchow b) Edward Wilson c) Gregor Mendel d)
Robert Koch

16.What can a single species show? a) No variation at the genetic level b) No diversity at the genetic
level c) Low diversity at the genetic level d) High diversity at the genetic level

17.What is the feature of the biosphere? a) No diversity b) Homogeneity c) Heterogeneity d) Negligible

18. How many strains of rice does India have? a) 50 b) 500 c) 5,000 d) 50,000
19. How many varieties of mango does India have? a) 2 b) 10 c) 1,000 d) 20

20.Which organism‟s species have greater diversity in the Western Ghats than the Eastern Ghats? a)
Reptiles b) Fishes c) Amphibians d) Mammals

21. How many years did evolution required? a) Tens b) Hundreds c) Trillions d) Millions Answer: d

22. Photosynthesis is the basis of life on earth because ______ a) It is the main source of all food on
earth b) It helps in the release of CO2 into the atmosphere c) It produces new off springs d) It gives no
energy to plants Answer: a