UNIT II [ECOSYSTEM] c) Bat

d) Leopard
Practice Sheet 8) Which are the organisms called those
who are responsible for the break
1) What can be visualized as a
down complex organic matter into
functional unit of nature?
inorganic substances?
a) Humans
a) Decomposers
b) Ecosystem
b) Producers
c) Vehicles
c) Consumers
d) Plants
d) Herbivores
2) What are the two basic categories of
9) What is the process of break down
an ecosystem?
complex organic matter into
a) Aquatic and terrestrial
inorganic substances called?
b) Aquatic and forest
a) Organization
c) Ponds and lakes
b) Decomposition
d) Rivers and forests
c) Production
3) From where do autotrophs obtain
d) Consumption
energy?
10) Along with oxygen what are the other
a) Ecosystem
components decomposition depend
b) Sunlight
on?
c) Heterotrophs
a) Oxygen
d) Zooplankton
b) Chemical composition of
4) The phytoplankton, zooplankton, and
detritus
the fungi are components of which
c) Decomposers
ecosystem?
d) Leaching
a) Pond
11) Along with oxygen what are the other
b) Land
components decomposition depend
c) Desert
on?
d) Terrestrial
a) Climatic conditions
5) Who reuses the decomposed dead
b) Decomposers
matter?
c) Humiliation
a) Zooplankton
d) Leaching
b) Autotrophs
12) At what rate does decomposition
c) Heterotrophs
occur when detritus is rich in nitrogen
d) Flagellates
and sugars?
6)  What is the characteristic of each
a) Slower
type of ecosystem?
b) Faster
a) Interaction between living things
c) Moderate
b) Interaction between biotic and
d) Neutral
abiotic factors
13) What the only source of energy for
c) Interaction between abiotic
all ecosystems on Earth?
factors
a) Water
d) Fights among individuals
b) Sun
7) Which organism is said to be a
c) Plants
farmer’s friend?
d) Animals
a) Rat
b) Earthworm

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 14) Which is an exception in an b) Autotrophs
ecosystem where the sun is not the c) Scavengers
source of energy? d) Humans
a) Deep-sea hydro-thermal 20) What is the missing level?
ecosystem Autotrophs →? → Decomposer
b) Terrestrial ecosystem a) Heterotrophs
c) Lake ecosystem b) Carnivore
d) Desert ecosystem c) Producer
15) What is the spectral range of solar d) Scavengers
radiation in that photosynthetic 21) What is the missing level?
organisms are able to use in the Autotrophs → Heterotrophs →?
process of photosynthesis called? a) Producers
a) Photosynthetically Reactive b) Decomposers
Radiation c) Scavengers
b) Photosynthetically Active d) Plants
Radiation 22) What is the missing level of the
c) Photosynthetically Deactive organization?
Radiation Tertiary consumer → Secondary
d) Photosynthetically Trapped consumer →? → Primary producer.
Radiation a) Carnivore
16) What is a group of organisms that b) Primary consumer
c) Decomposer
transfer food energy through a linear
d) Secondary producer
series of processes such as eating and
23) How many trophic levels do green
being eaten called? plants constitute?
a) Detritus a) Third trophic level
b) Food chain b) First trophic level
c) Decomposers c) Last trophic level
d) Producers d) Zero level
17) What is a group of organisms that 24)  In general, a food chain consists of
transfer food energy through a linear how many trophic levels?
series of processes such as eating and a) Four
being eaten called? b) Zero
a) Detritus c) Two
d) One
b) Food chain
25) What are the food levels in an
c) Decomposers
ecosystem called?
d) Producers a) Decomposer level
18)  What is the food chain beginning b) Trophic levels
with host and ending with a parasite c) Producer levels
(echo as well as endoparasite) called? d) Consumer levels
a) Detritus food chain 26) What is a graphical representation of
b) Parasitic food chain the relationship (producers forming
c) Grazing food chain the base and top carnivores forming
d) Terrestrial food chain the tip) between the individuals
19) What is the missing level? present in various trophic levels of a
? → Heterotrophs → Decomposer? food chain called?
a) Carnivore a) Ecological succession
b) Ecological pyramid

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 c) Ecological problems d) Random
d) Ecological Services 34)  What do the changes in a community
27)  In which terms are the representation that is in near equilibrium with the
of the relationship between producers environment lead to the formation of?
and consumers did? a) Mixed community
a) Number b) Climax community
b) Age c) Total community
c) Ecological succession d) Naive community
d) Issues 35) Which organisms is/are require to
28)  In which terms are the representation grow, reproduce and regulate various
of the relationship between producers body functions?
and consumers did? a) Air
a) Problems b) Nutrients
b) Biomass c) Water
c) Ecological success d) Soil
d) Age 36) What percent of dry weight does
29) Which of the following represents the carbon constitute in the living
relationship of prey being more than organisms?
predators? a) 55 percent
a) Age structure b) 49 percent
b) Pyramid of number c) 20 percent
c) Ecological succession d) 90 percent
d) Environmental issues 37) Which is the most abundant
30) On which basis is the idea of constituent found in living
productivity of an ecosystem based? organisms?
a) Pyramid of biomass a) Water
b) Pyramid of number b) Oxygen
c) Ecological succession c) Ammonia
d) Pyramid of energy d) Hydrogen bicarbonate
31) What does the pyramid of number 38) Out of the total quantity of global
and pyramid of biomass represent? carbon, what percent of carbon is
a) The rate of production of food found dissolved in oceans?
b) The relationship among the a) 50 %
organisms b) 71 %
c) The rate of respiration c) 90 %
d) The rate of loss of energy d) 25 %
32) Which of the following is an 39) What is the base for economic,
important characteristic of all environmental and aesthetic goods
communities? and services?
a) All individuals grow at the same a) Unhealthy ecosystem
rate b) Healthy ecosystem
b) Composition and structure c) Bad ecosystem
constantly changes d) Convergent ecosystem
c) Composition and structure 40) What are the products of ecosystem
remains constant processes named?
d) Communities are static in nature a) Ecological services
33) How is the change in communities? b) Ecological succession
a) Orderly and sequential c) Ecological issues
b) Parallel d) Ecological cycle
c) Perpendicular

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 41) Which of the following ecosystem b) Atmosphere
helps in the pollination of crops? c) Lithosphere
a) Unfit ecosystem d) All of these
b) Healthy ecosystem 49) The transfer of food energy through a
c) Bad ecosystem chain of organisms from one trophic
d) Unhealthy ecosystem level to another is called_____
42) Which of the following is not a type a) Energy chain
of ecosystem? b) Trophic chain
a) Aquatic ecosystem c) Food chain
b) Grassland ecosystem d) Organism chain
c) Marine ecosystem 50) Which of the following are
d) Mountain ecosystem considered as producers in a food
43) In desert ecosystem, shrubs and herbs chain?
are a) Autotrophic plants 
a) Producers organisms b) Herbivores
b) Consumers c) Carnivores
c) Decomposers d) Decomposers
d) None of the above
44) The following is the correct grazing
food chain
a) Grass – Grasshopper – Frog –
Snake – Hawk
b) Grass – Grasshopper ––Snake –
Frog – Hawk
c) Grass – Grasshopper – Frog –
Hawk – Snake
d) Grass– Frog – Grasshopper –
Snake – Hawk
45) In the process of photosynthesis,
plants use chlorophyll to transform
sunlight into _________ energy.
a) Heat
b) Chemical
c) Light
d) None of the above
46) The term ecosystem was coined
by_______
a) Warming
b) Tansle
c) Odum
d) Haeckel
47) All the energy in a food chain
originates from________
a) Plants
b) Sun
c) Sea
d) All of these
48) Which of the following are included
in the biosphere?
a) Hydrosphere

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