EST Assignment 3
EST Assignment 3
ASSIGNMENT NO: 3
(Academic Year 2024-25)
Sr. MCQ’s
No
1. Which one of the following is not a gaseous biogeochemical cycle in an ecosystem?
a) Carbon cycle b) Phosphorous cycle c) Sulfur cycle d) Nitrogen cycle
2. Transfer of energy from source of plants through a series of organism is known as ________________
a) Food web b) Energy cycle c) Food chain d) Biological system
3. The type of ecosystem with the highest mean plant productivity is _______________
a) Tundra b) Temperate grassland c) Desert d) Tropical rain forest
4. An ecosystem which can be easily damaged but can recovered after some time if damaging effect stops
will be having ____________________
a) High stability and high resilience b) High stability and low resilience
c) Low stability and low resilience d) Low stability and high resilience
7. What flows through the ecosystem while matter cycles within them?
a) Energy b) Force c) Pressure d) Wind
11. The three functional components interact with each other to form__________________
a) Environmental succession b) Environmental depression
c) Environmental system d) Ecology
12. Consumer for food that feeds on producers are known as_____________________
a) Carnivores b) Consumers c) Herbivores d) Producers
13. The food chain from grass to hawk and again it comes back to grass with the help of fungi. In the above
explain food chain, what is grass?
a) Producers b) Consumers c) Decomposers d) Energy source
14. The process in which green plants and few organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients is
known_________________
a) Chemosynthesis b) Photosynthesis c) Food chain d) Food web
15. The process of making food by certain microbes create energy by some chemical reactions is known
as_______________________
a) Photosynthesis b) Food chain c) Chemosynthesis d) Hetrosynthesis
17. What are the species called whose number of individuals is greatly reduced recently and is decreasing
continuously?
a) Endangered b) Rare c) Vulnerable d) Indeterminate
18. How many species of plants contribute to the traditional medicines used by native peoples around the
world?
a) 2,500 b) 2,000 c) 5,000 d) 25,000
19. How many plant and animal species have been discovered and described so far?
a) 1.5 million b) 4.5 million c) 1.5 billion d) 4.5 billion