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ZOOLOGY
SECTION – A 61. A pond is?
(Attempt All 35 questions) 1) A biome
51. When the number of organisms at 2) A community of plants and animals
Successive levels is plotted, they assume the 3) A natural ecosystem
shape of a pyramid. This is called the 4) None of the above
pyramid of? 62. Which one statement is correct regarding
1) energy 2) number man-made ecosystems?
3) biomass 4) both (1) and (3) 1) They are highly efficient
52. Who proposed the 10% law of energy flow 2) They are poor in diversity
in ecosystems? 3) They are vulnerable to drought, floods and
1) Lindeman 2) Carl Mobius diseases
3) Tansley 4) Darwin 4) All are correct
53. In a food web, each successive trophic level 63. The largest ecosystem in the world is?
has? 1) Forests 2) Grasslands
1) increased total energy 3) Great lakes 4) Oceans
2) less total energy content 64. Which of the following is an artificial
3) more total energy content ecosystem created by humans?
4) non-estimated energy content 1) Grassland ecosystem
54. What is PAR? 2) Agroecosystem
1) Photoperiod Active Radiation 3) Ecosystem of artificial lakes and dams
2) Photosynthetically Active Radiation 4) Forest ecosystem
3) Photoperiod Active Resources 65. Peacocks eat snakes that eat frogs. Frogs, in
4) Photosynthetically Active Resources. turn, eat the leaves of the plants. The
55. Where do herbivores/deer fit into a food peacock is?
chain? 1) primary consumer 2) secondary consumer
1) Primary producers 2) Primary consumers 3) decomposer
3) Secondary consumers 4) the apex of the food pyramid
4) Decomposers 66. Ecosystems are
56. A food chain can have trophic levels 1) Always open 2) Always closed
1) Three or four 2) Three 3) Both open and closed depending upon the
3) Two 4) One community
57. What is the role of producers in an 4) Both open and closed depending upon
ecosystem? biomass
1) To convert organic compound into an 67. What is the annual net primary
inorganic form productivity of the entire biosphere?
2) To utilize chemical energy 1) 170 billion tons (dry weight) of organic
3) To trap solar energy and convert it into matter
chemical energy 2) 165 billion tons (dry weight) of organic
4) To release energy matter
58. In a simple ecosystem with grass, deer and 3) 160 billion tons (dry weight) of organic
tiger in the food chain, how much amount matter
of food is available to the tiger if the grass 4) 155 billion tons (dry weight) of organic
production is one tonne? matter
1) 100 kg 2) 10 kg 3) 1 kg 4) 100 gm 68. Which factor limits the primary
59. Decomposers of an ecosystem include? productivity of an ecosystem most often?
1) microscopic animals 2) bacteria and fungi 1) Solar radiation/light 2) Oxygen
3) Both (1) and (2) 3) Consumers 4) Nitrogen
4) Bacteria, fungi and microscopic animals 69. What are the two components of an
60. What are the organisms that are used as ecosystem?
food materials but that are not killed by 1) Plants and animals 2) Weeds and trees
other organisms in nature? 3) Biotic and abiotic 4) Frog and men
1) Primary consumer 2) Secondary consumer 70. Energy storage at the consumer level is
3) Top consumer 4) Decomposers called?
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1) Gross primary productivity 3) Warm and anaerobiosis favour
2) Secondary productivity decomposition whereas lowtemperature
3) Net primary productivity favours decomposition
4) Net productivity 4) Warm and low temperatures inhibit
71. Primary productivity decomposition whereas anaerobiosis favours
1) is equal to the standing crop of an decomposition
ecosystem. 78. What percentage of the PAR is captured by
2) Is greatest in freshwater ecosystems. the plants?
3) Is the rate of conversion of light to chemical 1)5 - 10% 2)7 - 10% 3)8 - 10% 4)2- 10%
energy in an ecosystem. 79. In a forest ecosystem, bacteria and fungi are
4) Is inverted in some aquatic ecosystems. generally?
72. Energy flow in an ecosystem is? 1) Producers 2) Decomposers
1) unidirectional 2) bidirectional 3) Primary consumers
3) multidirectional 4) All of these 4) Secondary consumers
73. Which one is nature's cleaner? 80. Bamboo plant is growing in a fir forest then
1) Consumers 2) Producers what will be the trophic level of it?
3) Decomposers and scavengers 1) First trophic level (T1)
4) Symbionts 2) Second trophic level (T2)
74. Who is referred to as the farmer's friend? 3) Third trophic level (T3)
1) Ant 2) Sparrow 4) Fourth trophic level (T4)
3) Earthworm 4) Rabbit 81. Which one of the following animals may
75. Which of the following statements is true? occupy more than one trophic level in the
1) Decomposition rate is slower if detritus is same ecosystem at the same time?
rich in lignin and chitin, and quicker if detritus 1) Sparrow 2) Lion
is rich in nitrogen and water-soluble 3) Goat 4) Frog
substances like sugars. 82. Whale is?
2) Decomposition rate is slower if detritus is 1) Primary producer
rich in nitrogen and water soluble substances 2) Carnivorous secondary consumer
like sugars, and quicker if detritus is rich in 3) A decomposer 4) Herbivorous
lignin and chitin. 83. If an ecosystem is composed of only three
3) Decomposition rate is slower if detritus is trophic levels then how much energy will be
rich in cellulose, and quicker if detritus is rich conserved at the III trophic level?
in phosphorus. 1) 30% 2) 20% 3) 10% 4) 1%
4) Decomposition rate is quicker if detritus is 84. The animals that occupy the same trophic
rich in lignin, and quicker if detritus is rich in level are?
sulphur. 1) Lion & Bees 2) Deer & Bees
76. What are the two most important climatic 3) Snakes & Earthworm
factors that regulate decomposition through 4) Crow & Cow
their effects on soil microbes? 85. What are the organisms that are used as
1) Temperature and rainfall food materials but that are not killed by
2) Temperature and soil - moisture other organisms in nature?
3) Temperature and humidity 1) Primary consumer 2) Secondary consumer
4) Temperature and pressure 3) Top consumer 4) Decomposers
77. Which one of the following statements is 86. Identify the correct number of food chains
correct? in the given food web
1) Warm and moist environment favour
decomposition whereas low temperature and
anaerobiosis inhibit decomposition
2) Warm and moist environment inhibit
decomposition whereas low temperature and
anaerobiosis favour decomposition

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89. How much of the net primary productivity
of a terrestrial ecosystem is eaten and
digested by herbivores?
1) 1% 2) 10% 3) 40% 4) 90%
90. In the food web, what two organisms are
competing for food?

1) Five 2) Four 3)Six 4)Seven

87. Identify the likely organisms (a), (b), (c) and
(d) in the food web shown below

1) A and B 2) A and C
3) D and F 4) B and D
91. Approximately how much of the solar
energy falls on the leaves of a plant are
converted to chemical energy by
photosynthesis?
1) Less than 1% 2) 2 -10%
3) 30% 4) 50%
A B C D 92. Mineralisation by microorganisms aids in
1) Dear Rabbit Frog Rat the release of ?
2) Dog Squirrel Bat Deer 1) inorganic nutrients from the humus
3) Rat Dog Tortoise Crow 2) both organic and inorganic nutrients from
4) Squirrel Cat Rat Pigeon detritus
88. Given figure represents two food chains 3) organic nutrients from the humus
(X and Y) linked together to form a food 4) inorganic nutrients from detritus and
web. formation of humus.
93. Food chains differ from food webs as
1) Food chains are a single sequence of who
eats whom in a community.
2) Food chains better represent the entire
community.
3) Food webs represent the complex
interaction among food chains.
4) Food chain is the flow of energy in a
population.
Identify the types of food chain X and Y and 1) 1 and 3 2) 1 and 4
the organism A that interconnects these food 3)1,2and 3 4)1,2,3and 4
chains. 94. What is the producer in the chain when a
X Y A man eats fish that feed on zooplankton that
1) Detritus Grazing Bacterium has eaten small plants?
food chain food chain 1) Zooplankton 2) Small plants
2) Detritus Grazing Detritivore 3) Fish 4) Man
food chain food chain 95. Major conduit of energy in land and
3) Grazing Detritus Detritivore aquatic ecosystem is transferred through
food chain food chain and _____respectively.
4) Grazing Detritus Grasshoper 1) GFC, DFC 2) PFC, GFC
food chain food chain 3) DFC, GFC 4) GFC, GFC

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96. Choose odd one out w. r. t functional 4) Plants  Producers; caterpillar  Primary
aspects of ecosystem. consumer; Sparrow  Secondary consumer;
1) Energy flow 2) Decomposition Vulture  Tertiary consumer
3) Species composition 4) Nutrient cycling 102. Identify the INCORRECT pair.
97. Rate of production of organic matter by 1) Eagle - A top level carnivore of
producers per unit time and area is: grazing food chain
1) GPP 2) NPP 2) Earthworm - A primary producer of
3) NPP-R 4) More than one option is correct detritus food chain
98. In a grazing chain the trophic levels are as 3) Frog -A secondary consumer of
follows. grazing food chain
1) Hawks  Spiders  small birds  Rose 4) Zooplankton - A primary consumer of
bush  Aphids aquatic food chain
2) Aphids  Rose bush  small birds  103. Study the given statements and identify the
Spiders  Hawks trophic levels of organisms ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’
3) Spiders  Aphids  Small birds  Rose in an ecosystem.
bush  Hawks i) In an aquatic ecosystem, zooplanktons are
4) Rose bush  Aphids  Spiders  Small eaten by ‘X’.
birds  Hawks ii) In a grazing food chain, ‘Y’ feeds on
99. Complete the following analogy. grass
Primary consumers: iii) While hunting for food, lion eats ‘Z’
Herbivores :: Secondary consumers:______ which is a primary consumer
1) Tertiary carnivores 2) Detritivores X Y Z
3) Primary carnivores 1) Second First trophic Fourth
4) Secondary carnivores trophic level level Trophic level
100. In the food web given below, an increase in 2) Third Third trophic Second
the population of snakes will result in trophic level level trophic level
3) Third Second trophic Second
trophic level level trophic level
4) First trophic Second trophic Third trophic
level level level
104. Which of the following sentence is
INCORRECT regarding humus?
1) It is dark colored amorphous substance.
2) It is degraded by some microbes
1) Decrease in the population of mouse 3) It undergoes decomposition at an extremely
2) Increase in the population of rabbits and fast rate
lizards. 4) It is colloidal in nature and serves as
3) Decrease in the population of hawks and nutrient reservoir.
increase in the population of mouse 105. Assertion: The number of trophic levels in
4) Decrease in the population of hawks. the grazing food chain is restricted
101. Which of the following option gives a Reason:-The energy transfer in any food
CORRECT relation between the organism chain follows a 10% law.
and its trophic level? 1) Both assertion and reason are true and
1) Plants  primary consumers; Caterpillar reason is the correct explanation of assertion
 Secondary consumer; sparrow  Tertiary 2) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is
consumer; Vulture  Producer not the correct explanation of assertion
2) Plants  Tertiary consumers; caterpillar 3) Assertion is true but reason is false
 Producer; Sparrow  Primary consumer; 4) Assertion is false, reason is true
Vulture  Secondary consumer
3) Plants  Producers; Caterpillar  Tertiary
consumer; Sparrow  Secondary consumer;
Vulture  Primary consumer

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106. Given below are few events taking place in
the pond ecosystem. Arrange these events in
the ascending order of their occurrence and
choose the correct option.
i) Decomposition and mineralization of the
dead matter to release organic and
inorganic nutrients back in the
environment.
ii)Heterotrophs consume autotrophs.
iii) Conversion of inorganic material to
organic material with the help of solar
energy by the autotrophs.
1) ii  iii  i 2) i  ii  iii
3) iii  ii  i 4) ii  i  iii

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