Question 1 : Phosphorus usually becomes a limiting factor at certain times of the year in which ecosystem?
Question 2 : Which one of the following is a major constituent of biological membranes, nucleic acids and cellular energy transfer systems?
Question 3 : Decomposers of an ecosystem include?
Question 4 : What is the natural reservoir of phosphorus?
Question 5 : When the number of organisms at successive levels are plotted, they assume the shape of a pyramid. This is called the pyramid of?
Question 6 : Where do herbivores/deer fit into a food chain?
Question 7 : The slow rate of decomposition of fallen logs in nature is due to theirs?
Question 8 : Pyramid of numbers is?
Question 9 : Approximately 70% of the world’s fresh water is contained in?
Question 11 : Tip of the ecological pyramid is occupied by?
Question 12 : In the grass-deer-tiger food chain, grass biomass is one tonne. The tiger biomass shall be?
Question 13 : What percentage of the PAR is captured by the plants?
Question 14 : Among the following biogeochemical cycles which one does not have losses due to respiration?
Question 15 : Which one of the following types of organisms occupy more than one trophic level in a pond ecosystem?
Question 16 : At the edge of a lake or ocean, an area alternately exposed to air and immersed in water is called?
Question 17 : What is the natural reservoir of phosphorus?
Question 18 : Which type of pyramid of number is present in the tree ecosystem?
Question 19 : If an ecosystem is composed of only three trophic levels then how much energy will be conserved at the III trophic level?
Question 20 : Ecosystem is?
Question 21 : Which of the following statements is true?
Question 22 : What do both hydrarch and xerarch successions lead to?
Question 23 : In which ecosystem can an inverted pyramid of biomass be found?
Question 24 : How much of the net primary productivity of a terrestrial ecosystem is eaten and digested by herbivores?
Question 25 : What is ecological succession on sand?
Question 26 : What are the early settlers on a barren area (rock)?
Question 27 : What is the mass of living material at a particular time at a trophic level?
Question 28 : Which of the following statements is not a major concern about our altering of the carbon cycle?
Question 29 : What is a succession in saline soil?
Question 30 : What is the role of producers in an ecosystem?
Question 31 : Which one of the following animals may occupy more than one trophic level in the same ecosystem at the same time?
Question 32 : The reservoir for the gaseous type of bio-geochemical cycle exists in the
Question 33 : Secondary productivity is the rate of formation of new organic matter by?
Question 34 : What are the organisms that are used as food materials but that are not killed by other organisms in nature?
Question 35 : An ecosystem that can be easily damaged but can recover after some time if the damaging effect stops will be having?
Question 36 : Energy flow in an ecosystem is?
Question 37 : Which of the following in an ecosystem exhibits one-way flow rather than cyclic flow?
Question 38 : In a food web, each successive trophic level has?
Question 39 : The rate of formation of new organic matter by a rabbit in grassland is called?
Question 40 : During ecological succession?
Question 41 : What are the changes that occur in communities as a result of ecological succession?
Question 42 : Which of the following is expected to have the highest value (gm/m2/yr) in a grassland ecosystem?
Question 43 : Intermediate communities between pioneer and climax communities are called?
Question 44 : Which one of the following is a primary consumer in the maize field ecosystem?
Question 45 : Which one of the following statements is correct?
Question 46 : What are the two components of an ecosystem?
Question 47 : In a forest ecosystem, bacteria and fungi are generally?
Question 48 : Grassland with scattered trees is called?
Question 50 : What do you call the biomass that herbivores and decomposers can consume?