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Ecosystem services - class-XII

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The ecosystem services include.

  1. Maintenance of biodiversity

  2. Pollination of crop

  3. Spiritual, cultural and aesthetic values

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • The ecosystem services include 
  • provisioning services such as food and water;
  • regulating services such as regulation of floods, drought, land degradation, and disease; 
  • supporting services such as soil formation and nutrient cycling;
  • and cultural services such as recreational, spiritual, religious and other non-material benefits.
So, the correct option is 'All of these'

Who confirmed communities with more species tend to be more stable than those with less species?

  1. Alexander von Humboldt

  2. David Tilman

  3. Paul Ehrlich

  4. Edward Wilson


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Ecologists believe that the communities with more species tend to be more stable than those with less species.

Keystone species deserve protection because these 

  1. are capable of surviving in harsh environmental conditions

  2. indicate presence of certain minerals in the soil

  3. have become rare due to overexploitation

  4. play an important role in supporting other species.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Keystone species are those species which have significant and disproportionately large influence on the community structure and characteristic. It has often considered low abundance and biomass as compared to dominant species.

When two similar species live in the same area, they may evolve to become more different in order to ________________.

  1. drive the other species to extinction

  2. reduce competition

  3. use up the other species resources

  4. reduce genetic variation


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

According to the mechanism of resource partitioning (supported by Mac Arthur), if two species compete for the same resource, they could avoid competition by choosing, for instance, different times for feeding or different foraging patterns. Two species evolve to become different too reduce competition, so that species can co-exist. 

What are the important factors that bring about biological diversity?

  1. Temperature

  2. Enviornment

  3. Climatic conditions

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The correct answer is 'all of the above'

Biological diversity occurs due to the differential adaptation of organisms to varying environmental factors such as differences in temperature and climate conditions. These various mechanisms applied for adapting create the vast biological diversity we see around the world. 
So the correct option is D.

Decomposers converts

  1. Organic material into inorganic material

  2. Organic matter into carbon dioxide and nutrients

  3. Kill the soil microbes

  4. All


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Detritus is defined as dead and decaying organic matter that includes fallen leaves, dead plant parts and animals. It is the primary source of energy in the detritus food chain in which the microbes such as protozoans, bacteria and fungi help in the breaking down of the complex organic matter. They are called decomposers. Detritus food chain hence helps in soil replenishment by adding nutrients to the soil. They convert organic matter into carbon dioxide and nutrients. Thus the correct answer is option B.

The product of ecosystem processes which have environmental, asthetic and indirect economic value is called as

  1. Ecosystem services

  2. Biosphere services

  3. Environmental services

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

In an ecosystem which of the following are important components?

  1. Energy flow and food chain

  2. Mineral recycling and energy flow

  3. Food chain and decomposers

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Any ecosystem has two components -biotic or living organisms and abiotic or non-living component. 

Further, two most important functional characteristics of any ecosystem are unidirectional flow of energy and cycling of material. The living organisms of an ecosystem are related through food chains, which gives rise to trophic levels in an ecosystem. Energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next through the food chains. 
Of all the organisms in an ecosystem, the most important role is played by decomposers. The nutrients are released back into the environment by the decomposition of dead organisms. Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Valuable, practical services that help to preserve ecosystem performed by nature are called

  1. Ecosystem service

  2. Biological control

  3. The green house effect

  4. Biosphere balancing


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following is the most stable ecosystem?

  1. Forest

  2. Mountain

  3. Desert

  4. Ocean


Correct Option: D

One way flow of energy through an ecosystem continuous in

  1. Biological System

  2. Chemical process

  3. Environment

  4. Atmosphere


Correct Option: A

Fuel powered ecosystem is also known as

  1. Urban industrial Ecosystem

  2. Unsubsidized natural solar powered ecosystem

  3. Naturally subsidized solar powered ecosystem

  4. Man subsidized solar power ecosystem


Correct Option: A

What does change over time and space?

  1. Ecological system

  2. Ecosystem

  3. Ecological Function

  4. Environment


Correct Option: B

Zone marking end of troposphere is known as:

  1. Stratopouse

  2. Tropopause

  3. Menopause

  4. Thermopause


Correct Option: B

The way in which carbon is reused through the ecosystem is known as

  1. Energy recycling

  2. The energy pyramid

  3. The biotic/abiotic cycle

  4. The carbon cycle


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • The carbon cycle is the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
  • Carbon is the main component of biological compounds as well as a major component of many minerals such as limestone.
So, the correct answer is 'The carbon cycle'.

The process of photosynthesis and respiration cause the cycling of ........... through the environment.

  1. Carbon

  2. Water

  3. Nitrogen

  4. Hydrogen


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The plants can fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which is taken in through stomata. The carbon dioxide is converted in the presence of light and chlorophyll pigments to synthesize carbon containing organic compounds such as sugar, fats and proteins. This creates the plant biomass which when eaten by other organisms recycles the carbon from on level to other. Finally the carbon enters the geosphere and then the atmosphere. The oxygen which is formed during photosynthesis is liberated in the atmosphere and used for cellular respiration. The oxygen is used to break down the molecules and release the carbon dioxide. The carbon gets recycled in the environment from plants to animals and then again enters the environment. 

Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

Parachute type of mechanism of seed dispersal is found in

  1. Pea/ Leguminosae

  2. Mustard/ Cruciferae

  3. Cotton/ Malvaceae

  4. Taraxacum/ Compositae


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
  • Parachute mechanism of fruit and seed dispersal is due to a structure called pappus. 
  • Pappus is the Calyx. Pappus or fruit and seed dispersal mechanism is a modification process and this process is known as Calyx. Calyxes are the protective shield of the flower and they can protect the reproduction system of the flower. They help the flower to produce seeds. 
  • Parachute mechanism is characteristic of family Compositae.
  • Hence Parachute type of mechanism of seed dispersal is found in Taraxacum/ Compositae.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Taraxacum/ Compositae'.

An easily disturbed ecosystem which can recover after sometime after the stoppage of damaging factor, is of

  1. Low stability and high resilience

  2. High stability and high resilience

  3. Low stability and low resilience

  4. High stability and low resilience


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Answer is option A i.e. "Low stability and high resilience"
Stability is the power of a system to be in their state against unfavorable factor. Resilience is the capability of regaining its original shape or position after being deformed. An ecosystem which can be easily damaged but can recover after sometime when it 's damaging effect stops will be having low stability and high resilience. Hence, it has low stability and high resilience.

Dispersal of seed in Opium or poppy or argemone occurs by

  1. Explosive mechanism

  2. Parachute mechanism

  3. Censer mechanism

  4. aculatormechanism


Correct Option: C

Heavy rainfall during summer produces

  1. Desert

  2. Grassland

  3. Forest

  4. Wetland


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

During summer the land becomes dry and rainfall induces formation of grass and hence heavy rainfall during summer produces grasslands.

So, the correct answer is 'Grassland'

Plants take nitrogen from the soil by absorption through their roots as

  1. Nitrate ions

  2. Nitrite ions

  3. Ammonium ions

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: A,C
Explanation:

Plants take nitrogen from the soil by absorption through their roots as nitrate ions and ammonium ions.Nitrite is intermediate and gets converted to either forms by symbiotic or non-symbiotic bacteria present in plant roots and soil respectively.  Most nitrogen obtained by terrestrial animals can be traced back to the eating of plants at some stage of the food chain.

So, the correct answer is 'nitrate ions' and 'ammonium ions'

Plants of which one of the following groups of genera are pollinated by the same agency?

  1. Triticum, Cocos, Mangifera

  2. Ficus, Kigelia, Casuarina

  3. Salvia, Morus, Euphorbia

  4. Bombax Butea, Bauhinia


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Salvia, Morus, Euphorbia are pollinated by insects (entomophily)

So the correct answer is 'Salvia, Morus, Euphorbia'

Carbonisation is 

  1. Slow conversion of dead vegetation Into coal

  2. Deposition of soil

  3. Falling of trees

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Carbonization (or carbonisation) is the term for the conversion of an organic substance into carbon or a  carbon containing residue through destructive distillation or pyrolysis (also occurs in nature). It is often used in organic chemistry with  reference to the generation of coal gas and coal tar from raw coal.

So, the correct answer is 'slow conversion of dead vegetation into coal'

Which of the following method is applicable for pollination in gymnosperms?

  1. Anemophilous

  2. Entemophilous

  3. Hydrophilous

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Phanerogamae are the sub-kingdom of kingdom Plantae. They include seed bearing and flowering plants. They are further grouped into angiosperms and gymnosperms. Gymnospermic plants are pollinated by wind that is anemophilous.

So, the correct answer is 'Anemoplilous'

Which of the following is the natural method of hybridisation?

  1. Interspecific hybridisation

  2. Cross pollination

  3. Somatic cell hybridisation

  4. All of the above



Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cross pollination is the transfer of pollen from the anthers of a flower of one plant to the stigma of a flower of another  plant. It is a natural process.

So, the correct answer is 'cross pollination'

Select the wrong statement. 

  1. Forest provide variety of products.

  2. Forest have great plant diversity.

  3. Forest does not conserve soil.

  4. Forest conserves water.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It is wrong that the forest do not conserve soil. Actually forest prevent soil erosion by covering the soil by the canopy of the plants and reduces the impact of rain water and wind on the top layer of soil. The roots hold the soil and also prevent soil erosion.

So, the correct answer is 'Forest does not conserve soil'

The productive area required to produce all the resources for humanity to consume and to absorb all its waste is known as 

  1. A habitat 

  2. An ecosystem 

  3. An ecological footprint 

  4. The biosphere

  5. The carrying capacity


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
A. A habitat is a place where an organism lives and represents a particular set of environmental conditions suitable for its successful growth.
B. An ecosystem is a whole biotic community in a given area including its abiotic environment.
C. An ecological footprint is the measurement of any productive area (land or water) that is used by the human beings to produce the resources consumed by them and absorb the waste generated.
D. The planet Earth along with its atmosphere that sustains life is called biosphere.
E. Carrying capacity is the maximum size of the population that an environment can sustain.
So, the correct answer is 'An ecological footprint'.

Which of the following describes the ecosystem services?

  1. Carbon fixation

  2. Pollination

  3. Perennial water

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

A functional aspect of an ecosystem is

  1. Producers, consumers and abiotic environment

  2. Regulation of populations

  3. Light, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide

  4. Both A and C


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The functional aspects of an ecosystem include the regulation of populations, flow of energy, biogeochemical cycles, and the flow of nutrients. It also includes ecological succession, food chain, ecological pyramid, food web. Populations are regulated in an ecosystem through these food chains.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Regulation of populations.'

An ecosystem does not normally alter because it is in a state of

  1. Homeostasis

  2. Imbalance

  3. Deficient light

  4. Deficient components


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ecosystem is made up of living and nonliving things. Living things include plants and animals. Nonliving things includes air, water, land.  It is composed of organisms interacting within communities. The importance of ecosystem lies in both cycling of minerals and flow of energy. It does not alter normally because it is in a state of homeostasis. There is always balance of organisms in an ecosystem within themselves and with changing environment.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Homeostasis.'

Ecosystem creates

  1. Food chains and food web

  2. Food web

  3. Habitats

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

An ecosystem is made up of living and nonliving things. Living things include plants, animals. Nonliving things include air, water. It creates food chains and food web. A food chain is series of plants/animals which are interrelated in the form of organism being eaten as food by the other. plants are producers. The animals eating plants are called as primary consumers and animals eating primary consumers are called as secondary consumers. Decomposers are those which decomposes the waster organic matter. Food web is various interlinked food chains in a community.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Food chains and food web.'

Importance of ecosystem lies in

  1. Cycling opmaterials

  2. Flow of energy

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Ecosystem is made up of living and nonliving things. Living things include plants and animals. Nonliving things includes air, water, land.  It is composed of organisms interacting within communities. The importance of ecosystem lies in both cycling of minerals and flow of energy. It contributes to the cycling of minerals and flow of energy.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Both A and B.'

According to Robert Constanza, 50% of the total cost of ecosystem services goes to

  1. Climate regulation

  2. Soil formation

  3. Recreation

  4. Nutrient cycling


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Robert Constanza gave price tags to ecosystem services. According to him, soil formation accounts for 50% of the ecosystem service. It is the most important ecosystem service. The other ecosystem services include purify water and air, mitigate droughts and floods, nutrient cycling, habitat for wild life.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Soil formation.'

Which one is included under ecosystem services?

  1. Protection of soil

  2. Conservation and purification of water

  3. Climate control

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The benefits which we obtain from the regulation of ecosystem processes such as climate regulation, natural hazard regulation, water purification, and waste management, pollination or pest control are known as Ecosystem services. Agroecosystems, forest ecosystems, grassland ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems are included under these ecosystems. These are also known as regulating services. Examples include Climate regulation, Waste treatment, and disease regulation. 

So, the correct answer is 'All of the above'.

According to Robert Constanza, 50% of the total cost for ecosystem services goes to

  1. Recreation

  2. Soil formation

  3. Nutrient cycling

  4. Climate regulation

  5. Habitat for wildlife


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Robert Constanza and his colleagues have very recently tried to put price tags on nature’s life-support services. Researchers have put an average price tag of US $ 33 trillion a year on these fundamental ecosystems services, which are largely taken for granted because they are free. Out of the total cost of various ecosystem services, the soil formation accounts for about 50 per cent, and contributions of other services like recreation and nutrient cycling, are less than 10 per cent each. The cost of climate regulation and habitat for wildlife are about 6 per cent each.
So, the correct answer is 'Soil formation'.

Multiple choice type.
The term "ecosystem" is derived from the Greek word "Oikos" meaning.

  1. Body weight

  2. Food

  3. House

  4. Size


Correct Option: A

Free services provided to humans by ecosystems include

  1. control of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

  2. prevention of soil erosion.

  3. filtering of pollutants from water and air.

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Ecosystem services are the products of ecosystem processes. These services include conditions and processes by which the species are able to survive and sustain their life. 
  • Trees control atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration because they take up carbon dioxide and perform photosynthesis through which they release oxygen in the atmosphere. Hence, quality of air is maintained by ecosystems.
  • The roots of plants held the soil particles tightly which prevent soil erosion.
  • Plants filter out pollutants from water and air by trapping pollutants. They absorb pollutants from air and water in their tissues. 
Hence, all the statements given in the question are correct.
So, the correct answer is 'All of the above'.

Thermal belts are usually found

  1. On valley floors

  2. On hillsides

  3. On mountain tops

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

System involved in interconnection of living and non-living organisms is known as

  1. Biosphere

  2. Ecosystem

  3. Hydrosphere

  4. Atmosphere


Correct Option: B

What does an ecosystems depend on?

  1. Solar Energy

  2. Consumers

  3. Producers

  4. Food chain


Correct Option: A

The establishment of Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) enshrines which among the following objectives?

  1. Protection from Pollution

  2. Tourism Development

  3. Economy Hub

  4. Transportation facilities


Correct Option: A

In which of the following universities "National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Zone Management" under the World Bank assisted Integrated Coastal Zone Management project is set up?

  1. Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

  2. Anna University, Chennai

  3. Utkal University, Bhubaneswa

  4. Andhra University, Visakhapatnam


Correct Option: B

Aquatic ecosystem help in

  1. Reduce pollution

  2. Absorption of nutrients

  3. Recycle of nutrients

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The aquatic ecosystem is the interaction of biotic component and abiotic component in the water body. It serves important environmental services such as recycling of nutrients, water purification, attenuate floods, recharge groundwater and provides shelter to wildlife. Aquatic ecosystems are also used for human recreation, and are very important to the tourism industry, especially in coastal regions. 

Which features are characteristic of insect-pollinated flowers?

  1. Bright petals, large feathery stigmas

  2. Bright petals, rough sticky pollen

  3. Large feathery stigmas, nectaries

  4. Small light pollen, nectarines


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Insect-pollinated flowers are large, have brightly coloured petals, often sweetly scented, usually contain nectar- to attract insects. Its pollen are often sticky or spiky - to stick to legs and body of  insects

So, the correct is 'bright petals, rough sticky pollen'

Mid latitude lakes undergo mixing more than equatorial lakes, select the correct reason.

  1. The midlatitude lakes turn over twice a year

  2. Midlatitude lakes develop a thermocline

  3. Water is densest at $4$

  4. All of the above

  5. They don't - equatorial lakes have more mixing


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Deep lakes at mid-latitudes have well-pronounced stratification which leads to the lakes experiencing wealthy internal waves dynamics. These lakes also possess seasonal water mixing during the spring and autumn transitional periods. This is due to the non-linear thermal expansion of water when its temperature reaches 4$^0$C and the density of water is maximum.  Further, with the increasing latitudes support the general cyclonic water circulation. Hence the large lakes along mid-latitudes show a large variety of these physical processes.

Identify the correct statement for freshwater ecosystems.
I. There is a seasonal mixing of materials.
II. During the year, oxygen concentrations are vertically uniform.
III. Materials are recycled more quickly than in ocean ecosystems.

  1. I only

  2. II only

  3. III only

  4. I and III 

  5. II and III 


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A Freshwater ecosystem is one of  the aquatic ecosystems of the earth and includes lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and wetlands. This ecosystem is essential as it not only provides human beings their drinking water, but these are also home to more than 40 percent of the world's fish species. The seasonal changes occur in the freshwater ecosystem with regards to temperature-density relationship and since it contains continuous running water so materials are recycled more quickly than in ocean ecosystems.

So, the correct answer is option D.

Who have tried to put price tags on natures life support services?

  1. Robert Constanga et al

  2. Nile Perch et al

  3. Herbert Boyer et al

  4. Ram Deo Misra et al


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Robert Constanga et al have tried to put price tags on natures life support services. He gave price tags to the ecosystem services. Out of these services, 50% accounts for the soil formation. The ecosystem services he put price on includes purify water and air, mitigate droughts and floods, nutrient cycling, habitat for wild life.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Robert Constanga et al.'

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