Biodiversity and Conservation

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BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
1. In which of this approach, the threatened 7. Which of the following is correct for
animals and plants are taken out from their ecosystem service pollination :
natural habitat and placed in special setting (1) Narrow utilitarian
where they can be protected and given (2) Ethical
special care? (3) Broad utilitarian
(1) In situ conservation: National Parks (4) None
(2) Ex situ conservation: Sanctuaries 8. Find the correct option with respect to
(3) Offsite conservation: Zoological parks deforestation :
(4) Onsite conservation: Botanical gardens (1) Decrease a major greenhouse gas
2. Jhum cultivation (slash and burn (2) Promote better hydrological cycle
agriculture) is found in which part of India? (3) Promote biodiversity conservation
(1) North-eastern state (4) Loss of biodiversity
(2) Western state 9. (a) Both assertion and reasons are true and
(3) Southern state reason is a correct explanation of the
(4) Desert state assertion.
3. We should conserve our biodiversity for (b) Both assertion and reasons are true and
which of the following reasons? reason is not correct explanation of the
a) Economic benefits assertion.
b) Ecosystem services (c) Assertion is true but the reason is false.
c) Some ethical reasons (d) Both Assertion and reason is false.
The correct one(s) is/are Assertion: Introduction of alien species is
(1) Only a (2) Only a & b responsible for extinction of indigenous
(3) Only b (4) All a, b & c species
4. How many of the following are broadly Reason: Alien species have no natural
utilitarian reasons for conserving predator, so they causes uncontrolled
biodiversity? predation and do not show prudent nature.
(a) Firewood (1) A (2) B
(b) Fibres (3) C (4) D
(c) Pollination 10. The main cause for the extinction of more
(d) Product of medicinal importance than 200 species of cichlid fish in the Lake
(1) One (2) Two Victoria in East Africa was:-
(3) Three (4) Four (1) Over-exploitation
5. Which cause of extinction badly affected (2) Co-extinction
‘Lungs of Planet’? (3) Alien-species invasion
(1) Habitat loss and fragmentation (4) Habitat fragmentation
(2) Over-exploitation 11. How many of the all amphibian species in
(3) Alien species invasion the world are facing the threat of
(4) Co-extinction extinction?
6. Exploring molecular genetic and species (1) 32% (2) 23%
level diversity for products of economic (3) 21% (4) 12%
importance is called:- 12. Which is not in the group of hotspot in the
(1) Biodiversity world?
(2) Bioprospecting (1) Western Ghatand Srilanka
(3) Biopiracy (2) Indo-Burma
(4) Bioremediation (3) Himalaya
(4) Indo-Pakistan
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13. All the following are key criteria for 17. Find out the Incorrect Match :-
determining a hotspot except (1) Biosphere Reserve –14
(1) High number of invader species (2) Wild life Sanctuaries–448
(2) High level of species richness
(3) Indian Hot spot – 3
(3) High degree of endemism
(4) Degree of threat in terms of habitat loss (4) National Parks – 85
14. Presently_____________% of all gymnosperm 18. Assertion: India is one of the 12 mega
species in the world face the threat of diversity countries of the world.
extinction. Reason: India shares of the global species
(1) 32 (2) 23
diversity is an impressive 8.1 percent.
(3) 12 (4) 81
15. Find the false statement. (1) Both Assertion & Reason are True & the
(A) In the last 20 years alone there is a Reason is a correct explanation of the
disappearance of 27 species. Assertion.
(B) Three species (Bali, Javan and Caspian) (2) Both Assertion & Reason are True but
of tiger are included in recently extinct Reason is not a correct explanation of
animals.
the Assertion.
(C) If we apply May's estimate then there
are probably more than 1,00,000 plant (3) Assertion is True but the Reason is False.
species in India that are yet tobe (4) Both Assertion & Reason are False.
discovered and described. 19. Introduction of alien species into new area
(D) There is more solar energy available in poses a threat to extinction of indigenous
temperate, which contribute to higher
species due to :
productivity; this in turn contributes
directly to greater diversity. (1) their high nutrient requirement
(1) A only (2) their symbiotic relationship
(2) C, D only (3) absence of their natural predators
(3) B, D only (4) more intraspecific competition
(4) A and C only
16. Match some examples of recent extinctions
of animals in the column-A with their
locations (Countries) in column - B :-
Column A Column B
(a) Steller's Sea (i) Africa
cow
(b) Thylacine (ii) Indonesia
(c) Bali Tiger (iii) Mauritirs
(d) Quagga (iv) Russia
(v) Australia
(1) a(iv), b(v), c(ii), d(i)
(2) a(iv), b(v), c(iii), d(i)
(3) a(iv), b(v), c(i), d(ii)
(4) a(iii), b(iv), c(ii), d(i)
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Answer 3 1 4 1 1 2 3 4 1 3 1 4 1 2 3
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Answer 1 4 1 3
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