This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Science > Biology > Class 11 Biology Chapter 1 The Living World – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Biology Chapter 1 The Living World Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the primary focus of the 'Project Tiger' initiative? A) To increase the population of tigers. B) To build more zoos. C) To promote tourism. D) To plant more trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To increase the population of tigers. 2. Which of the following organisms does not reproduce? A) Mule. B) Worker bee. C) Infertile human female. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 3. Which of the following is NOT an adaptation in reptiles? A) Hollow bones. B) Scaly skin. C) Clawed toes. D) Thin soles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hollow bones. 4. What is the single most important difference between the marine, freshwater, and estuary biomes? A) Sunlight. B) Salinity (dissolved salt). C) Oxygen. D) Amount of Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salinity (dissolved salt). 5. Selective breeding is ..... A) Natural method of producing offspring with desired traits. B) A process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits. C) Creating a new species. D) Making organisms reproduce during times of stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits. 6. Basic unit or smallest taxon of classification is A) Species. B) Variety. C) Family. D) Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 7. All living organisms can be classified into different tax this process of classification is A) Taxonomy. B) Taxonomic hierarchy. C) Taxon. D) Taxonomic category. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taxonomy. 8. Term Biodiversity was defined by A) Walter. B) Mendal. C) Wilson. D) Tansley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wilson. 9. What is the relationship between biodiversity and climate change? A) Biodiversity and climate change are unrelated phenomena. B) Climate change increases biodiversity in ecosystems. C) Biodiversity has no impact on climate change. D) Biodiversity and climate change are interconnected; biodiversity helps ecosystems adapt to climate change, while climate change poses risks to biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biodiversity and climate change are interconnected; biodiversity helps ecosystems adapt to climate change, while climate change poses risks to biodiversity. 10. Bacteria fix nitrogen on plant roots. Plant roots provide sugar to bacteria. This is an example of A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 11. Which is a fresh water ecosystem? A) River. B) Estuary. C) Ocean. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) River. 12. Which is NOT a freshwater ecosystem? A) An estuary. B) A river. C) A lake. D) A stream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An estuary. 13. In an ecosystem organisms and their environment are: A) Interdependent. B) Independent. C) Codependent. D) Intradependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interdependent. 14. A large extinction of many different types of species in a relatively short period of time A) National forest. B) Species richness. C) Keystone species. D) Mass extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mass extinction. 15. Food chains demonstrate A) Relationships between symbiotic species. B) Flow of energy. C) Exchange of matter. D) Biogeochemical pathways. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flow of energy. 16. Ecosystem Service:Ecosystems and living organisms create buffers against natural disasters, thereby preventing possible damage. A) Provisioning. B) Supporting. C) Cultural. D) Regulating. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regulating. 17. A ..... is a virgin and/or old second-growth forests containing trees that are often hundreds-sometimes thousands-of years old. Examples include forest of Douglas fir, western hemlock, giant sequoias, and coastal redwoods in the western U. S. A) Old-growth forests. B) Young plantations. C) Urban parks. D) Desert landscapes. E) Managed farmlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Old-growth forests. 18. Which body part helps a fish to swim in water? A) Legs. B) Tail. C) Fins. D) Wings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fins. 19. All of the populations gathered in an ecosystem are called this A) Population. B) Biosphere. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 20. Large herds of grazing mammals are most likely to be located in a A) Rain forest. B) Estuary. C) Coniferous forest. D) Grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grassland. 21. What are the major reservoirs in the Phosphorus Cycle? A) Rock. B) Sediments. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rock. 22. Which of the following is true of carbon as it cycles in nature? A) Carbon dioxide is released during photosynthesis. B) Carbon compounds rarely exist in the gaseous state. C) Carbon sinks include forests and oceans. D) The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is reduced by cutting trees. E) Carbon is concentrated in igneous rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon sinks include forests and oceans. 23. Recombination nodule observed in ..... phase of meiosis. A) Diplotene. B) Pachytene. C) Leptotene. D) Zygotene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pachytene. 24. Which of the following are characteristics of living things A) They reproduce. B) They respond to stimuli. C) They grow. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 25. Which of the following best explains why nitrogen fixation (when bacteria in the soil change atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen for plants & animals) must take place? A) Atmospheric nitrogen is unusable to plants and animals. B) Nitrogen must be returned to the atmosphere. C) Animals must breathe in nitrogen. D) Nitrogen gets "stuck" in the soil and must be untrapped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmospheric nitrogen is unusable to plants and animals. 26. What dud we use to measure temperature A) Theremometer. B) Fossil Fuel. C) Raingage. D) Wind indicater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theremometer. 27. This is the species that does the hunting of another organism for it to consume A) Prey. B) Producer. C) Ecosystem engineer. D) Predator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predator. 28. Both the crown and root of a tooth is coveredby a layer of bony hard substance called A) Bony socket. B) Cementum. C) Dentine. D) Enamel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dentine. 29. A primary consumer A) Is a carnivore. B) Consumes the producer. C) Makes its own food. D) Eats other animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumes the producer. 30. The term "New Systematics" was introduced by A) Julian Huxley. B) Charles Darwin. C) Gregor Mendel. D) Carl Linnaeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Julian Huxley. 31. Binomial nomenclature is given by ..... A) Henry Cavendish. B) Charles Darwin. C) James Chadwick. D) Carolous Linnaeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carolous Linnaeus. 32. The order generally ends with A) Ales. B) Aceae. C) Eae. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ales. 33. What is the primary goal of selective breeding in agriculture? A) To increase genetic diversity. B) To produce offspring with desired traits. C) To eliminate all genetic mutations. D) To create new species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To produce offspring with desired traits. 34. In which phase of meiosis do homologous chromosomes separate? A) Prophase I. B) Telophase I. C) Anaphase I. D) Metaphase I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphase I. 35. ..... species is a non-native plant or animal introduced accidentally or intentionally by humans A) Endangered. B) Invasive. C) Extinct. D) Threatened. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invasive. 36. They are animals that eat only meat A) Herbivore. B) Carnivore. C) Omnivore. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carnivore. 37. The limits to the abiotic conditions that a species can tolerate A) Range of tolerance. B) Distribution. C) Realized niche. D) Fundamental niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Range of tolerance. 38. The hydrologic cycle is a continuous process driven by energy from the ..... A) Gravity. B) Sun. C) Earth's interior. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sun. 39. A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment makes up a A) Food web. B) Ecosystem. C) Food chain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 40. Which weather tool measures air pressure? A) Barometer. B) Anemometer. C) Thermometer. D) Psychrometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barometer. 41. Father of taxonomy? A) Linnaeus. B) Aristotle. C) Lamarck. D) Trivaranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linnaeus. 42. The aesthetic value of an ecosystem provides A) A regulating service. B) An intrinsic value. C) A supporting service. D) A cultural service. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A cultural service. 43. Webbed feet in ducks help them to: A) Fly faster. B) Swim in water. C) Climb trees. D) Dig soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swim in water. 44. The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same resource A) Predator. B) Competition. C) Adaptation. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 45. This is the trapping of heat by gases in Earth's atmosphere. A) Acid precipitation. B) Bioaccumulation. C) Greenhouse effect. D) Trophic efficiency. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greenhouse effect. 46. Which is the correct order of tropic levels? A) Tertiary Consumer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Producer. B) Primary Consumer, Producer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer. C) Quaternary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Producer. D) Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer. 47. Animals with scales A) Dog. B) Monkey. C) Cow. D) Snakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snakes. 48. Losses of usable energy between successive trophic levels in an ecosystem are best accounted for by which of the following? A) The law of conservation of matter. B) Limiting factors in the ecosystem. C) The second law of thermodynamics. D) The first law of thermodynamics. E) The process of ecological succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The second law of thermodynamics. 49. Which of the following plants is likely to be found in a desert? A) Deodar. B) Coconut. C) Rhododendron. D) Cactus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cactus. 50. Find the odd one out:Chlorophyll, Sunlight, Carbon dioxide, Oxygen A) Sunlight. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Chlorophyll. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 51. First step in taxonomy is A) Classification of the organism. B) Nomenclature of the organism. C) Description of the organism. D) Identification of the organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Identification of the organism. 52. In oocytes of some vertebrates, ..... can last for months or years. A) Zygotene. B) Leptotene. C) Diplotene. D) Pachytene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diplotene. 53. Which of these is an aquatic indicator species? A) Shrimp. B) Plankton. C) Sea Anemone. D) Coral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coral. 54. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area A) Predation. B) Population. C) Ecological hierarchy. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 55. Plants like ..... fulfill their need for nitrogen by consuming insects. A) Cuscuta. B) Deodar. C) Drosera. D) Pine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drosera. 56. Refer the botanical name of wheat "Triticum aestivum" and identify the statement which correctly describes it. A) The second word belongs to genus and starts with a small letter. B) Both the words "Triticum aestivum" denote the specific epithet. C) The first word Triticum denotes the genus which starts with a capital letter. D) The first word Triticum denotes the specific epithet while the second word denotes the genus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first word Triticum denotes the genus which starts with a capital letter. 57. Lennious is credited with A) Discovery of blood circulation. B) Binomial nomenclature. C) Discovery of microscope. D) Theory of biogenesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Binomial nomenclature. 58. An event in which a large percentage of all living species become extinct in a relatively short period of time. A) Habitat fragmentation. B) Overexploitation. C) Mass extinction. D) Background extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mass extinction. 59. In the binomial system of taxanomy developed during the 18th century by C. Linnaeus, the second word of an organism's biological name represents A) Family. B) Genus. C) Species. D) Race. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Species. 60. The process in which excess energy is lost by light waves is called A) Photophosphorylation. B) Photo-oxidation. C) Fluorescence. D) Photolysis. 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