SUMMER COURSES 2024

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
EVS-MCQ
UNIT 1-ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEM AND BIODIVERSITY
The Biome is the .
A) Largest ecosystem
B) Smallest ecosystem
C) Single unit of the ecosystem
D) None of the above
ANSWER: B
The degradation of the environment leads to .
A) Soil pollution
B) Water pollution
C) Air pollution
D) All the above
ANSWER: D
Freshwater ecosystems cover
of the earth's water.
A) 28 %

B) 97%
C) 3 %
D) 15 %
ANSWER: C
Which one of the zone receives dim light and is usually geologically active?
A) Euphotic zone
B) Bathyl zone
C) Abyssal zone
D) Neritic zone
ANSWER: B
Which one of the zone receives abundant light and shows high photosynthetic activity?
A) Euphotic zone
B) Bathyl zone
C) Abyssal zone
D) Neritic zone
ANSWER: A
Organisms that live in rivers are adapted to…
A) Lightning strikes
 B) Large amount of salt content
C) Extreme change in temperature
D) Large nutrients
ANSWER: C
Coral reefs have
A) Are found in tropical waters
B) Exposure to air when tide goes out
C) Lack of sunlight
D) The absence of plants and animals
ANSWER: C

The shallowest zones of the benthic environment are called the intertidal zone. This
zone is characterized by
A) Constant temperature & pressure
B) Not have great diversity in organisms
C) Are found in cold waters
D) Are found in deep waters
ANSWER: A
What do abiotic factors affect aquatic ecosystems?
A) Algae, sand, amount of rocks
B) Marsh grasses, seagrasses
C) Water depth, temperature
D) sunlight, temp, O2, salt content, pH
ANSWER: D
What are the types of aquatic ecosystems?
A) Streams and ocean
B) Salty and fresh
B) Freshwater and marine
C) Surface zone and deep zone
ANSWER: B
What is the series of long underwater mountain ranges on the ocean floor?
A) Mid-ocean ridge
B) Trenches
C) Rivers
D) Underwater volcanoes
ANSWER: A
What is not a part of a decomposer's niche?
A) Feed decaying plants and animals
B) Fix nitrogen for plants to use
C) Provide carbon dioxide for plants
D) Breaking of dead species
ANSWER: A
What is the name of the gas do plants breathe in?
A) CO2
B) O2
 C) N2
D) H2
ANSWER: B
The progress replacement of one community by another is called as----------------------------
A) Succession
B) Land growth
C) Habitat
D) Finite
ANSWER: A
A relationship between two types of organisms in which one organism is benefited while
the other is not affected is called.
A) Parasitism
B) Commensalism
C) Mutaualism
D) Symbiosis
ANSWER: B
The natural place of an organism or community is known as.
A) Niche
B) Biome
C) Habitat
D) Habit
ANSWER: C
Which one of the following requires maximum energy?
A) Secondary consumer
B) Decomposer
C) Primary consumer
D) Primary producer
ANSWER: C
The bottom area where the production is less than the respiration in a pond ecosystem is
termed as .
A) Profundal zone
B) Tidal zone
C) Limnetic zone
D) Benthic zone
ANSWER: D
What is canopy?
A) Uppermost level of the forest
B) Ground level of the forest
C) Soil in forest
D) Climbers on tress
ANSWER: D
An example of lotic system is .
A) Pond
B) River
 C) Lake
D) Reservoir
ANSWER: B
African grasslands are called .
A) Prairies
B) Pampas
C) Savannah
D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
Phytoplankton are called as .
A) Producer of forest
B) Producer of lakes
C) Consumer of ocean
D) Omnivores
ANSWER: O
A shallow zone in a freshwater habitat where the light reaches the bottom. It's the most
biologically diverse location in a lake. It is called .
A) Profundal zone
B) Littoral zone
C) Limnetic zone
D) Benthic zone
ANSWER: C
Which type of lake has a lot of nutrients?
A) Eutrophic
B) Dystrophic
C) Oligotrophic
D) Mesotrophic
ANSWER: A
Microscopic, free-floating, autotrophic organisms that function as producers in aquatic
ecosystems are called as -------------------------
A) Plankton
B) Zooplankton
C) Phytoplankton
D) Bacteria
ANSWER: A
Which of the following aquatic ecosystems are both littoral and benthic zones most likely
found in?
A) Open ocean
B) Coral reef
C) Lake
D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
Organism that breaks down dead organisms
A) Plankton
B) Benthos
 C) Decomposer
D) Nekton
ANSWER: D
The presence of abnormally high concentrations of harmful substances in the
environment, often put there by people is called.
A) Pollution
B) Pollutant
C) Water quality
D) Turbidity
ANSWER: A
An increase in the amount of nutrients in a lake is known as.
A) Plankton
B) Oligotrophic
C) Eutrophication
D) Dystrophic
ANSWER: C
Which of the following aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity?
A) Estuarine
B) Ocean
C) River
D) Pond
ANSWER: B
A partially enclosed body of water where salt and freshwater mixed is called.
A) Estuary
B) Wetland
C) Lake
D) Pond
ANSWER: A
The area of the river near the mouth is called .
A) Upstream
B) Downstream
C) Lake
D) Brackish
ANSWER: C
The amount of salt dissolved in water is known as.
A) pH
B) Salinity
C) Solution
D) Miscibility
ANSWER: B
Bay, lagoon, harbor, inlet, and sound are also known as .
A) Wetlands
B) Lakes
C) Bogs
D) Estuaries
ANSWER: D
A mixed of salt water and fresh water is called .
A) Biotic
B) Abiotic
C) Mixture
D) Brackish
ANSWER: D
How many types of aquatic ecosystems are there?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
ANSWER: B
What made organisms to build their ecosystem in aquatic?
A) Curiosity
B) Evolution
C) c) Force from other organisms
D) d) Increase in water level
ANSWER: B
Where can we find both running and stagnant water?
A) Marine ecosystem
B) Wetlands
C) c) Coral reef
D) d) Freshwater ecosystems
ANSWER: B
Which is the largest ecosystem in Earth?
A) Forest ecosystem
B) ) Desert ecosystem
C) Ocean ecosystem
D) Grassland ecosystems
ANSWER: C
Where can we see coral reefs?
A) In Pond
B) In desert
C) In shallow tropical seas
D) In dense tropical forest
ANSWER: C
Which of the following is the world’s most productive ecosystems in terms of biomass
production?
A) Pond ecosystem
B) Lake ecosystem
C) Brackish water ecosystem
D) River ecosystems
ANSWER: C
Which is the simplest aquatic ecosystem?
A) Pond ecosystem
 B) Lake ecosystem
C) Stream ecosystem
D) Marine ecosystems
ANSWER: A
Which ecosystem is known as a giant permanent pond?
A) Pond ecosystem
B) Lake ecosystem
C) Seashore ecosystem
D) Marine ecosystems
ANSWER: B
How many oceans constitute the marine ecosystems around peninsular India?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
ANSWER: C
The process of making food by certain microbes creates energy by some chemical reaction
is known as .
A) Photosynthesis
B) Food chain
C) Chemosynthesis
D) Hetrosynthesis
ANSWER: C
The food chain level in autotrophy is
A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Tertiary
D) Quaternary
ANSWER: C
The producers in the underwater ecosystem are called as .
A) Phytoplankton
B) Semiplankton
C) Hectoplankton
D) Autoplankton
ANSWER: A
Which of these determine the types of organisms live in water?
A) Water temperature
B) Oxygen level of water
C) Sunlight & nutrients
D) Sunlight, temp, oxygen & nutrients
ANSWER: D
Salinity means the level of in the water.
A) Oxygen
B) Nitrogen
C) Salts
 D) Minerals
ANSWER: C
Estuaries become a _ trap which helps plant and animal life flourish.
A) Death
B) Oxygen
C) Nutrients
D) CO2
ANSWER: C
The sum of all the living and non-living things around us influences one another. This is
the definition of.
A) Environment
B) Environment Science
C) Environmental Engineering
D) Environmental Studies.
ANSWER: A
What is the component of the environment?
A) Abiotic component
B) Biotic component
C) Energy component
D) All the above
ANSWER: D
The living organisms that interact with the physical environment are called
-----------------------
A) Hydrosphere
B) Lithosphere
C) Biosphere
D) Atmosphere
ANSWER: C
The terrestrial ecosystem is related to .
A) Grassland ecosystem
B) Forest ecosystem
C) Desert ecosystem
D) All the above
ANSWER: D
Gardens are related to
A) Natural ecosystem
B) Artificial ecosystem
C) Both of them
D) None of the above

ANSWER: B
Consumers are
A) Plants
B) Animals
 C) Micro-organisms
D) All the above
ANSWER: B
Herbivores are related to
A) Primary consumer
B) Secondary consumer
C) Tertiary consumer
D) Micro-organisms
ANSWER: A
Animals that eat both animals and plants are called as .
A) Herbivores
B) Carnivores
C) Omnivores
D) Consumers
ANSWER: C
The sequence of eating and being eaten in an ecosystem is known as .
A) Food chains
B) Food web
C) Food Pyramid
D) Ecological succession
ANSWER: A
The Grassland ecosystem is an example of .
A) Pyramid of number
B) Pyramid of energy
C) Pyramid of biomass
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
T5 of tropic level represents .
A) Producer
B) Primary consumer
C) Second consumer
D) Decomposer
ANSWER: D
Which type of forest is characterized by high temperature?
A) Tropical scrub forest
B) Tropical rainforest
C) Tropical deciduous forest
D) Temperate rainforest
ANSWER: B
What are the types of grassland ecosystems?
A) Tropical grassland
B) B) Temperate grassland
C) Polar grassland
D) All the above
ANSWER: D
The Sahara desert is found in
A) Tropical desert
B) Temperate desert
C) Cold desert
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Which type of ecosystem maintains climate and rainfall?
A) Forest ecosystem
B) Grassland ecosystem
C) Desert ecosystem
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Nudation is one of the processes of .
A) Food web
B) Food chain
C) Ecological succession
D) Food pyramid
ANSWER: C
Detritus food chain starts with .
A) Green plants
B) Dead organic matter
C) Decomposer
D) All the above
ANSWER: B
What is meant by Xerosere?
A) Establishment starts in a dry area
B) Establishment starts in a watery area
C) Both of them
D) None of them
ANSWER: A
Representation of the structure and function of tropic levels of an ecosystem is called---------
A) Ecological succession
B) Ecological pyramid
C) Food web
D) Food chain
ANSWER: B

Which type of ecosystem has the soil contains poor nutrients and organic matter?
A) Grassland ecosystem
B) Forest ecosystem
C) Desert ecosystem
D) All the above
ANSWER: C
Cold deserts are found in .
A) Thar desert
B) Gobi desert
C) Sahara desert
D) None of the above
ANSWER: B
What are called for a discrete group of organisms of the same kind?
A) Genes
B) B) Community
C) Species
D) Column

ANSWER: B
How many components are there in species diversity?
A) One
B) B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

ANSWER: C

Which is the largest scale of biodiversity?

A) Species diversity
B) Genetic diversity
C) Cell diversity
D) Ecological diversity

ANSWER: D
How many biogeographic zones are there in India?
A) Five
B) Ten
C) Fifteen
D) Twenty
ANSWER: B
Among the ten different biogeographic zones in India, which zone is the largest
biogeographic region?
A) Himalayas
B) B) Desert
C) Semi-Arid
D) Deccan plateau
ANSWER: D
Which one of the following is the ecological problems being faced by the semi-arid zones in
India?
A) Organic farming
B) B) Rural Development
C) Animals conflict
 D) Desertification

ANSWER:D
Which biogeographic zone is considered as one of the 25 biodiversity hot spots globally?
A) Deccan plateau
B) Western Ghats
C) Deserts
D) Himalayas
ANSWER: B
What is called for the value of nature’s products that are consumed directly?
A) Productive value
B) Indirect value
C) Non-consumptive value
D) Consumptive value

ANSWER: D
The following is an example of an ex-situ conservation
A) Sacred groves
B) Wildlife Sanctuary
C) Seed bank
D) National park

ANSWER: C
Forest support habitats with high
A) Food chain
B) Food web
C) Biodiversity
D) Biosphere

ANSWER: C
Which of the following was listed as one of the vulnerable species by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature?
A) Elephants
B) The Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros
C) Pink-headed duck
D) Sumatran Rhinoceros
ANSWER: B
Which is an advantage of ex-situ conservation?
A) Cheap method
B) Conserve large number of species
C) Genetic process for long life
D) Existence in natural habitat

ANSWER: C

Hot spot areas have .

ANSWER: D
How do urbanization and an increase in population affect biodiversity?
A) Making land more productive
B) Loss of flora and fauna
C) More growth of flora and fauna
D) Increasing land’s agricultural capability
ANSWER: B
The conservation of species in their natural habitat is called-----------------------------------
A) In-situ conservation
B) Ex-situ conservation
D) Off-site conservation
D) No conservation
ANSWER: A
Which approach do we protect and conserve the animals that need urgent measures to
save it from extinction?
A) In-situ conservation
B) On-site conservation
C) Ex-situ conservation
D) No conservation

ANSWER: C
How many total biodiversity hotspots are in the world?
A) 20
B) 80
C) 55
D) 34
ANSWER: D
What is the number of biosphere reserves in the world?
A) 24
B) 44
C) 14
D) 4
ANSWER: C
Which one of the following is an odd one?
A) Botanical gardens
B) B) Zoological parks
C) Wildlife safari parks
D) National parks

ANSWER: D
What is an important reason for the conservation of natural resources?
A) Disturb the ecological balance
B) Preserve the biological diversity
C) Break of quality of the environment
D) Hampering the biological species
ANSWER: B
What are the species whose number of individuals is greatly reduced recently and is
decreasing continuously?
A) Endangered
B) Rare
C) Vulnerable
D) Indeterminate

ANSWER: C
How many species of plants are used for the production of the drugs currently sold in the
market worldwide?
A) 2 %
B) 35 %
C) 25 %
D) 5 %
ANSWER: C
Which one of the following is an example of conservation?
A) No use of natural resources
B) The wise use of natural resources
C) Excess use of natural resources
D) Complete use of natural resources

ANSWER: D
Which one of the following is said to be the most important cause or reason for the
extinction of animals and plants?
A) Loss of habitat and fragmentation
B) Over-exploitation of species
C) Invasion of alien species
D) Co-extinctions
ANSWER: A
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

ANSWER: D
What is the feature of the biosphere?
A) No diversity
B) Homogeneity
C) Heterogeneity
D) Negligible diversity

ANSWER: C
Which one of the following is not the outcome of man-wildlife conflict?
A) Damage to human property
B) Increase in the forest area
C) Hurt and loss of life of humans
 D) Reduction of habitat
ANSWER: B
What type of food chain is it? dead animals → blowfly maggot → maggots → frog → snake
A) Detrital food chain
B) Decomposer food chain
C) Predator food chain
D) Grazing food chain
ANSWER: A
The breakdown of detritus into small particles by earthworms is called
as-------------------------
A) Mineralisation
B) Catabolism
C) Humification
D) Fragmentation

ANSWER: D
The food chain in which microbes split energy-rich compounds of the producer community is
A) Detrital food chain
B) Parasitic food chain
C) Predator food chain
D) Producer food chain