This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Science > Biology > Class 11 Biology Chapter 1 The Living World – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Biology Chapter 1 The Living World Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship A) Easter Island. B) Ecological footprint. C) Keystone species. D) Experimental Design. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Experimental Design. 2. What type of movement do fish use? A) Flying. B) Crawling. C) Swimming. D) Walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swimming. 3. Which of the following is NOT an example of a commons? A) Air. B) Forests. C) Oceans. D) Private beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Private beach. 4. How does the hydrosphere interact with the carbon cycle? A) Carbon dissolves in water and evaporates into air. B) Nitrogen dissolves in water and evaporates into air. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon dissolves in water and evaporates into air. 5. Which percent of the Earth's water is available as liquid freshwater? A) 1%. B) 3%. C) 97%. D) 15%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1%. 6. The model of the energy available at each level that ALWAYS gets smaller as you go up is the A) Food web. B) Numbers pyramid. C) Energy pyramid. D) Biomass pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy pyramid. 7. Where are most cold environments found? A) Near the equator. B) Near the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. C) Randomly spread around the earth. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Near the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. 8. What is the definition of deforestation? A) The burning of trees in a forested area. B) The removal of trees in a forested area. C) The removal of trees. D) The cutting down or burning of trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The removal of trees in a forested area. 9. Which of the following is a potential benefit of genetically modified crops? A) Decreased crop yield. B) Increased pesticide use. C) Reduced nutritional value. D) Improved resistance to pests. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Improved resistance to pests. 10. What groups of organisms are most in danger of extinction? A) Those with small populations, specialists, large territories. B) Those that do not migrate or need special habitats. C) Those with large populations that breed quickly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Those with small populations, specialists, large territories. 11. Organisms who depend on plants and animals for their food are called: A) Micro-organisms. B) Autotrophic Organisms. C) Monsters. D) Heterotrophic Organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heterotrophic Organisms. 12. A dikaryon is formed when A) Meiosis vis arrested. B) The two haploid cell do not fuse. C) Cytoplasm do not fuse. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 13. What service do decomposers perform? A) Store carbon dioxide. B) Recycle nutrients and matter. C) Produce phosphorus for plants. D) Filter water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycle nutrients and matter. 14. What is the main way carbon dioxide is pulled out of the air? A) Nuclear Power plants. B) Man made devices that turn CO2 into coal. C) Photosynthesis. D) Cellular Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 15. Which of the following taxonomic categories includes one or more related orders? A) Species. B) Family. C) Class. D) Genus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Class. 16. The first hardy, species-often microbes, mosses, and lichen-that begin colonizing a site as the first stage of ecological succession is characterized as which of the following? A) Pioneer species. B) Decomposer organisms. C) Secondary consumers. D) Climax community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pioneer species. 17. Which is a useful living thing A) Lizard. B) Rat. C) Dog. D) Spider. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dog. 18. What do you call ALL the living things in the same environment? A) Biome. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 19. Exemplified by bees consuming nectar and carrying pollen from one flower to another A) Predation. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Commensalism. E) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 20. Term given to describe the 2 name naming system is: A) 2 scientific names. B) Binomial key. C) Binomial nomenclature. D) Dichotmous key. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Binomial nomenclature. 21. The breaking of habitats into smaller pieces is called ..... A) Habitat pollution. B) Habitat corruption. C) Habitat division. D) Habitat fragmentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Habitat fragmentation. 22. A collection of species which bear a close resemblance to one another in the morphological characters of the floral parts is known as A) Family. B) Variety. C) Genus. D) Division. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genus. 23. How do living things remove their waste A) Excretion. B) Respiration. C) Excreation. D) Breathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excretion. 24. This is known as the set of resources a population is theoretically capable of using in the wild. A) Competition. B) Niche. C) Realized niche. D) Fundamental niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fundamental niche. 25. Fill in the blank: ..... are species that are found only in one area. Such species are especially vulnerable to extinction. A) Migratory species. B) Invasive species. C) Exotic species. D) Endemic species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endemic species. 26. When a population has reached carrying capacity A) Births & Immigration are greater than Death & emigration. B) Births & Immigration are equal to Death & emigration. C) Births & Immigration are less than Death & emigration. D) Births are exponential. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Births & Immigration are equal to Death & emigration. 27. A system made up of organisms interacting with one another A) Ecosystem. B) Biology. C) Abiotic. D) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 28. Which of the cycles is considered to be the SLOWEST? A) Nitrogen. B) Water. C) Phosphorus. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phosphorus. 29. What type of plants are tall with hard stems? A) Herbs. B) Shrubs. C) Trees. D) Grasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trees. 30. Which of the following is the best definition for estuary? A) Narrow band of coastline that exists between high and low tide. B) Areas along the coast where fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean. C) Flowing fresh water containing rapids. D) Freshwater aquatic areas that are saturated by water for at least part of the year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Areas along the coast where fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean. 31. Living organisms show A) Self replication and self regulation. B) Evolution. C) Response to external stimuli. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 32. What is missing from this food chain?Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake A) Producer. B) Decomposer. C) Primary Consumer. D) Secondary Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decomposer. 33. What two human activities contribute the most to global warming? A) Burning fossil fuels and deforestation. B) Mining and vehicle exhaust. C) Burning fossil fuels and agriculture. D) Deforestation and agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burning fossil fuels and deforestation. 34. The main cause of biodiversity loss worldwide is A) Invasive species. B) Extinctions. C) Habitat destruction. D) Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habitat destruction. 35. The water in a closed terrarium is constantly recycled, passing from liquid form to gas and back again. As the moisture in the air condenses on the container's walls, it returns to the soil and is absorbed by the plants' roots. The water cycle is one example of a ..... cycle in which abiotic and biotic factors work together to sustain ecosystems. A) Geobiochemical. B) Water. C) Biogeochemical. D) Biochemical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biogeochemical. 36. Chromosomes present in cytoplasm and made of two chromatid in stages of mitosis- A) Prophase and metaphase. B) Metaphase and anaphase. C) Metaphase. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphase. 37. A species whose activities have a particularly significant role in determining community structure A) R-selected species. B) Indicator species. C) Generalist species. D) Keystone species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keystone species. 38. Nicotiana is a ..... A) Type of bird. B) Type of fish. C) Type of mineral. D) Type of plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Type of plant. 39. Which biome is characterized by low temperatures and low amounts of rainfall? A) Tropical Rainforest. B) Desert. C) Tundra. D) Temperate Deciduous Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tundra. 40. The Indian Botanical Garden and National Botanical Research Institute are located respectively in A) Pune and Howrah. B) Howrah And Lucknow. C) Darjeeling and Lucknow. D) Shimla and darjeeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Howrah And Lucknow. 41. Which of the following element's cycles includes long-term storage in rocks and a short storage time in the atmosphere? A) Calcium. B) Nitrogen. C) Sulfur. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sulfur. 42. Which of the following organism do not reproduce? A) Mules. B) Worker bees. C) Infertile human couples. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 43. Which best describes the concept of net primary production? A) Total amount of cellular respiration conducted within an ecosystem. B) Energy captured minus energy lost. C) Total amount of energy available from the Sun. D) Total amount of energy available from the producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy captured minus energy lost. 44. Animals, birds, fish plants are A. Living things B. Non living things C. Man-made A) A. B) B. C) C. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 45. The fibrous root system is found in: A) Monocots. B) Dicots. C) Both. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monocots. 46. What describes the daily fluctuations of temperature and precipitation? A) Climate. B) Climatogram. C) Weather. D) Albedo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weather. 47. The gradual changes in an ecosystem over time, usually after a disturbance (like a dam changing a forest) A) Habitat loss. B) Deforestation. C) Succession. D) Biodiversity crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Succession. 48. Organisms which can freely interbreed and produce fertile offspring and have similar coded information or blue print for making these organisms are called A) Genus. B) Sub-genus. C) Tribe. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Species. 49. A relationship, like with the bird and the giraffe, where both parties benefit A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Symbiosis. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 50. Binomial system of nomenclature was given by? A) Mayr. B) Santapau. C) A P Decadolle. D) Carolus Linnaeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carolus Linnaeus. 51. Which category divide the animals on the basis of backbone A) By laying eggs. B) Vertebrate. C) Herbivorous. D) Body covering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrate. 52. The impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources. A) Secondary succession. B) Ecological footprint. C) Range of tolerance. D) Species richness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecological footprint. 53. All 7 taxonomic category together constitute ..... A) Taxon. B) Taxonomic hierarchy. C) Taxonomy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taxonomic hierarchy. 54. These man-made structures are a threat to river ecosystems A) Dams. B) Satellites. C) Solar panels. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dams. 55. Lack of food, too little space, and polluted water are examples of this A) Limiting factors. B) Carrying capacity. C) Biotic. D) Habitat loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factors. 56. The result of a bottleneck event is ..... A) Speciation. B) Reduced genetic diversity. C) Increased gene flow. D) Increased genetic diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reduced genetic diversity. 57. Phytoplankton are A) Large animals. B) Large plants. C) Tiny autotrophic organisms in water. D) Tiny heterotrophic organisms in water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tiny autotrophic organisms in water. 58. Reproduction absent in? A) Worker bee. B) Mules. C) Infertile human couples. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 59. Why do trees growing in hills have conical shape? A) To look beautiful. B) To slide down water and snow. C) To make the birds comfortable. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To slide down water and snow. 60. Study the four statements (I-IV) given below and select one correct one out of them: A) In unicellular organisms, reproduction is not synonymous with growth. B) Definition of biological species was given by Darwin. C) Photoperiod does not effect reproduction in plants. D) Binomial nomenclature system was gives by Linnaeus. 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