Biodiversity Multiple Choice Questions with Answers

1 Global warming can be controlled by

A Reducing deforestation, cutting down use of fossil fuel

B Reducing reforestation, increasing the use of fossil fuel

C Increasing deforestation, slowing down the growth of human population

D Increasing deforestation, reducing efficiency of energy usage

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Answer:Reducing deforestation, cutting down use of fossil fuel

2 Which one of the following is not used for ex situ plant conservation?

A Field gene banks

B Seed banks

C Shifting cultivation

D Botanical Gardens

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Answer: Shifting cultivation

3 Which of the following represent maximum number of species among global biodiversity?

A Algae

B Lichens

C Fungi

D Mosses and Ferns

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Answer:Fungi

4 Prolonged liberal irrigation of agricultural fields is likely to create the problem of

A Aridity

B Metal toxicity

C Salinity

D Acidity

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Answer:Aridity

5 The greatest problem of water conservation is to reduce the amount of

A Precipitation

B Runoff water

C Groundwater

D Evaporation

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Answer: Groundwater

6 Maximum nutritional diversity is found in the group:

A Monera

B Plantae

C Fungi

D Animalia

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Answer:Animalia

7 Which one of the following areas in India, is a hotspot of biodiversity?

A Sunderbans

B Western Ghats

C Eastern Ghats

D Gangetic Plain

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Answer:Western Ghats

8 Which one of the following is not included under in situ conservation?

A National park

B Wild life sanctuary

C Zoological garden

D All of types

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Answer:Zoological garden

9 An inexhaustible non-conventional universal source of energy is

A Wind energy

B Solar energy

C Hydrothermal energy

D Tidal energy

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Answer:Tidal energy

10 Which one of the following expanded forms of the followings acronyms is correct?

A IUCN = International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

B IPCC = International Panel for Climate Change

C UNEP = United Nations Environmental Policy

D EPA = Environmental Pollution Agency

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Answer:IUCN = International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

11 Wild life conservation aims at :

A Maintaining the ecological process

B To enrich the wildlife diversity with exotic species

C Preventing migration of species

D Maintaining the diversity of life

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Answer:To enrich the wildlife diversity with exotic species

12 Because of deforestation, decreased transpiration leads to

A less cloud formation

B more cloud formation

C more water storage

D None of the given

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Answer: more water storage

13 Plants like Aegle marmelos, Ocimum sanctum and Ficus religiosa are a group of plants designated as

A Traditional food crops

B Sacred species of plants

C Medicinal plant species

D Lesser known food plants

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Answer:Sacred species of plants

14 –1°C to 13°C annual variations in the intensity and duration of temperature and 50 to 250 cm annual variation in precipitation, account for the formation of major biome as:

A Tropical forest

B Coniferous forest

C Temperate forest

D Grassland

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Answer: Coniferous forest

15 Sacred groves are especially useful in

A Generating environmental awareness

B Preventing soil erosion

C Year-round flow of water in rivers

D Conserving rare and threatened species

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Answer:Generating environmental awareness

16 Some of the nutrient cycles are labelled as below: Sulphur cycle
(a), Phosphorus cycle
(b), Carbon cycle
(c) and Nitrogen cycle
(d) Of these, the sedimentary cycle is represented by

A (a) only

B (b) only

C (c) only

D (a) and (b) only

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Answer:(a) only

17 Study the four statements (a–d) given below and select the two correct ones out of them
A lion eating a deer and a sparrow feeding on grain are ecologically similar in being consumers
Predator star fish Pisaster helps in maintaining species diversity of some invertebrates
Predators ultimately lead to the extinction of prey species
Production of chemicals such as nicotine, strychnine by the plants are metabolic disorders The two correct statements are:

A (a) and (b)

B (b) and (c)

C (c) and (d)

D None of these

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