ECOLOGY Sample Paper

1. ________is the ratio of grassland cover that is present now a days on earth.

a. 0.42

b. 0.52

c. 0.62

d. 0.19

Correct Answer: d

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2. __________ is the interaction of organisms in relation to its environmental components.

a. Ecology

b. Ecosystem

c. Environmental ecology

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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3. A specie with wide niche breadth is called_______

a. Keystone specie

b. Specialist

c. All of these

d. Generalist specie

Correct Answer: d

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4. Fauna that is inhabitant of an island is known as

a. Island fauna

b. Local fauna

c. All of these

d. Insular fauna

Correct Answer: d

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5. Island that have been connected to the representative nearby mainland at one time is known as_______

a. Ancient island

b. Oceanic island

c. All of these

d. Continental island

Correct Answer: d

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6. Area of Galapagos island is _____________.

a. 2987miles

b. 2587 miles

c. 2997miles

d. 2870miles

Correct Answer: d

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7. By comparing 1921 survey to 1908 survey species may________.

a. Increase

b. Decrease

c. Remains stable

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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8. KIWI is a flightless bird that is natively present in ________.

a. Austrasia

b. New Zealand

c. Galapagos island

d. Australia

Correct Answer: b

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9. Which one is not a gaseous cycle?

a. Mercury cycle

b. Oxygen cycle

c. Carbon cycle

d. Nitrogen cycle

Correct Answer: a

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10. The transition process from the vapor state to the liquid state is called

a. Condensation

b. Precipitation

c. Vaporization

d. Evaporation

Correct Answer: a

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11. Combustion is a process by which oxygen is further converted into_______.

a. Carbon dioxide

b. Water vapors

c. Liquid oxygen

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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12. ____________ are the chief agents for Carbon dioxide fixation through the process of photosynthesis, through which carbon dioxide and water are converted into simple carbohydrates

a. Fungi

b. Plants

c. Algae and Fungi

d. Algae

Correct Answer: c

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13. ___________is a bacterium that is responsible for the process of denitrification

a. Pseudomonas

b. Azotobacter

c. Nitrosomonas

d. Nitrobacter

Correct Answer: a

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14. The surrounding or conditions in which an organism live is called as______.

a. Habitat

b. Ecosystem

c. All of these

d. Environment

Correct Answer: d

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15. The role or position of a specie in its environment is called as________.

a. Ecological formation

b. Ecological niche

c. Habitat fragmentation

d. Ecological succession

Correct Answer: b

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16. Range of environmental conditions in which a specie is really found is known as_______.

a. Fundamental niche

b. Hutchinson concept

c. All of these

d. Realized niche

Correct Answer: d

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17. Our globe contains___________ % marine water.

a. 70

b. 97.3

c. 2.8

d. 97.2

Correct Answer: d

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18. Competition exclusion principle is also called as______.

a. All of these

b. Gause’s law

c. Earnest law of Hackle

d. Rapid exclusion principle

Correct Answer: b

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19. Species which can survive in a great variety of environmental conditions are known as____.

a. Generalist

b. Specialist

c. keystone

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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20. ______________ is an ecosystem situated near the north pole of Arctic ocean.

a. Tropical rain forest

b. Temperate deciduous forest

c. Tundra

d. Taiga

Correct Answer: c

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21. Largest animal that live in tundra ecosystem is___________.

a. Deer

b. Polar bear

c. Lion

d. Tiger

Correct Answer: b

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22. ________ is an ecosystem in which 4 seasons are easily recognizable and each last about 3 month.

a. Taiga

b. Tundra

c. Temperate deciduous forest

d. Tropical rain forest

Correct Answer: c

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23. An ecosystem where two types of water meets with each other is known as_________.

a. Sea

b. River

c. Estuary

d. Ocean

Correct Answer: c

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24. Conversion of Ammonia into nitrite is done by

a. Nitrosomines

b. P. lactobacillus

c. P. ariugunosa

d. Nitrobacter

Correct Answer: a

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25. Study of populations in relation to the environment is known as________.

a. Population

b. Population richness

c. Population Ecology

d. Population abundance

Correct Answer: c

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26. Total live birth in a total population area is called as_________.

a. Emigration

b. Natality

c. Moratlity

d. Birth

Correct Answer: b

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27. Factors that increase population size is________.

a. Natality and Immigration

b. Mortality

c. Emigration

d. Mortality and Emigration

Correct Answer: a

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28. Density=

a. All of these

b. Population/Area

c. Poplation/size

d. Population/Species

Correct Answer: b

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29. Density is measured by which of the following methods?

a. No of species method

b. Original method

c. Total count method

d. Measurement method

Correct Answer: c

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30. Formula of mark and recapture method is

a. N=MC/R

b. N=MR/C

c. M=NC/R

d. M=NR/C

Correct Answer: a

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31. Most frequent pattern of population distributaion is___________.

a. Uniform dispersion

b. Random dispersion

c. Clumped dispersion

d. Population dispersion

Correct Answer: c

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32. Which one gives J shaped curve about population?

a. All of these

b. Exponential growth curve

c. Logistic growth curve

d. Rapid growth curve

Correct Answer: b

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33. The word ecology was first designed by _________ in ____________.

a. Albert zoologist, 1860

b. wilcox, 1869

c. Earnest Hackle, 1869

d. Gauses, 1860

Correct Answer: c

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34. Who called surroundings a habitat?

a. Richard

b. Earnest hackle

c. Wilcox

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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35. According to Brewer action, reaction and coaction are the basics of the structure and functioning of the community and the ___________,

a. Ecosystem

b. Population

c. Species

d. Environment

Correct Answer: a

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36. Who defines Study of man in relationship to his environment?

a. Earnest Hackle

b. Horton and Hunt

c. Richard

d. Horton

Correct Answer: b

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37. The trasitional zone or junction between two or more communities is called as_________.

a. All of these

b. Ecotone

c. Community standards

d. Community ecology

Correct Answer: b

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38. Hydrophytic means

a. All of these

b. Aquatic habitat

c. Aquatic plants

d. Aquatic community

Correct Answer: b

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39. The earths interior consists of ______________.

a. crust

b. All of these

c. Core

d. Mantle

Correct Answer: b

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40. On earth rainstorms occurred in___________.

a. 3.5 billion years ago

b. 4.0 billion years ago

c. 4.6 billion years ago

d. 3.9billion years ago

Correct Answer: d

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41. According to paleontologists how much eras occurred on earth about mass extinction

a. 3

b. 2

c. 1

d. 4

Correct Answer: d

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42. Who coined this term Ecosystem are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth?

a. Tansley, 1935

b. Earnest hackle

c. Hirarie

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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43. Of the total incident of solar radiation less than_________ of it is PAR.

a. 0.01

b. 0.2

c. 0.3

d. 0.6

Correct Answer: d

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44. Which law explain about understanding of cycling of energy in ecosystems.

a. 10 percent law

b. Gauses law

c. Earnest hackle’s law

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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45. Net primary productivity NPP=

a. GPP-R

b. GP-PR

c. G-PPR

d. GPPR

Correct Answer: a

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46. The amount of light energy converted into chemical energy in an ecosystem is called as_________.

a. All of these

b. Primary productivity

c. Secondary productivity

d. Tertiary Productivity

Correct Answer: b

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47. The process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over a period of time is called as_________.

a. Ecological formation

b. Ecological succession

c. Ecological niche

d. Ecological community

Correct Answer: b

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48. Creating of life in an area where no life existed before is called as__________.

a. Primary generation

b. Primary formation

c. Primary succession

d. Primary productivity

Correct Answer: c

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49. Species that do not need any soil to survive is called as ___________.

a. Pioneer species

b. Keystone specie

c. Generalist species

d. None of these

Correct Answer: a

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50. The final stage of succession is called as_______________.

a. Secondary community

b. Tertiary community

c. Climax community

d. Primarycommunity

Correct Answer: c

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