Biotic and abiotic components - class-VIII

Test your knowledge of ecosystem structure, focusing on biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) components, their interactions, and ecosystem functions including energy flow, nutrient cycling, and stability.

92 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following aspects is not a component of functional unit of ecosystem?

  1. Productivity
  2. Decomposition
  3. Energy flow
  4. Ecological pyramids
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An ecosystem is the biotic community which along with the physical environment forms an interacting system. It can be _________________.

  1. Man-made
  2. Temporary
  3. Natural
  4. All of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Living things interact with ________ constantly.

  1. Organisms
  2. Environment
  3. Non-living things
  4. None of the above
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Each ecosystem consist of ........... main components.

  1. Three
  2. Two
  3. Four
  4. Five
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following terms defines the prefix 'eco'?

  1. Ecology
  2. Environment
  3. Adaptation
  4. Exchange
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The sphere of living matter together with water, air and soil on the surface of earth is called as

  1. Lithosphere
  2. Biosphere
  3. Hydrosphere
  4. Atmosphere
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an artificial ecosystem?

  1. Rice-field
  2. Forest
  3. Grassland
  4. Lake
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An ecosystem is a complex interacting system of

  1. Individual
  2. Population
  3. Community and their physical environment
  4. Community and their soil condition
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem is

  1. Open
  2. Closed
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither open nor closed
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem is defined as

  1. Relation between plants and animals
  2. Relation between biotic and physical components
  3. Relation between producers and decomposers
  4. None of the above
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem may be defined as

  1. Group of plants which act as the energy suppliers
  2. Group of organisms which form population
  3. Functional unit for ecological studies
  4. None of the above
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following factors is contributed by biotic elements in the ecosystem

  1. Photoperiod
  2. $CO _{2}$
  3. Texture and porosity of soil
  4. Rainfall
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Study of inter-relationships between a species/individual and its environment in all stages of its life cycle is

  1. Synecology
  2. Autecology
  3. Forest Ecology
  4. Ecology
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who proposed the term ecosystem?

  1. Odum
  2. Gardner
  3. Warming
  4. Tansley
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem may be defined as

  1. A species along with environment
  2. Plants found in water
  3. Plants found on land
  4. All plants and animal species along with environment
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Biome has organisms of various trophic levels 

  1. Reacting with abiotic environment
  2. Constitute a sociological unit
  3. Live a symbiotic life
  4. Inhabit a desert
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem contains 

  1. Food web
  2. Food chain
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who coined the term ecosystem?

  1. Tansley
  2. Odum
  3. Warming
  4. Darwin
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Which one is not the dynamic aspect of an ecosystem?

  1. Producers and mineral cycles
  2. Consumers and mineral cycles
  3. Producers and energy flow
  4. Energy flow and mineral cycles
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The term ecosystem was coined by

  1. Warming
  2. Odum
  3. Tansley
  4. Haeckel
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many of the following will act as a decomposer in a pond ecosystem?
[spider, earthworm, woodlouse, fungus]

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  4. Four
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem can be recognised as self-regulating and self sustaining unit of

  1. Species
  2. Landscape
  3. Organism
  4. Community
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following ecosystem lacks one or more structural components?

  1. Deep sea
  2. Freshly formed water pond
  3. Forest ecosystem
  4. All of the above
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Study of interaction between living organisms and environment is called

  1. Ecosystem
  2. Phytogeography
  3. Psychology
  4. Mycology
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is non-essential in an ecosystem:-

  1. $Co _2$
  2. Grass
  3. soil
  4. Fungi
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A drop of water is an example of :- 

  1. Micro ecosystem
  2. Macro ecosystem
  3. Nano ecosystem
  4. Both B & C
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The ocean covers ___________ percentage of Earth's surface.

  1. 51%
  2. 61%
  3. 71%
  4. 91%
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The abiotic and biotic components constitute the structure of an

  1. energy flow
  2. environment
  3. atmosphere
  4. Ecosystem
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The inherent ability of organisms to reproduce and multiply is called

  1. C value
  2. biotic potential
  3. carrying capacity
  4. K value
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Definition of ecosystem is

  1. The community of organisms together with the environment in which they live
  2. The abiotic component of a habitat
  3. The part of the earth and its atmosphere which inhibits living organisms
  4. A community of organisms interacting with one another
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Initial development of an 'ecosystem' is known as

  1. Primary succession
  2. Secondary succession
  3. Tertiary succession
  4. All of above
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Applied and basic aspects of environmental science require a solid foundation in

  1. Anthropogenic
  2. Natural Sciences
  3. Multi-disciplinary nature
  4. All of Above
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What does environment include?

  1. Biotic and abiotic factors
  2. Animals and Plants
  3. Microorganisms
  4. Non-living things
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Function of an ecosystem means

  1. Rate of biological flow, nutrients and ecological regulations
  2. Temperature zone for stability
  3. Light emitting diodes
  4. Life cycle of species
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is role of an acosystem?

  1. providing nutritional support to plants
  2. to generate life continuity, flourishing distinctive structure to all species
  3. helping animals to survive in an environment
  4. All of above
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If ELR exceeds ALR, environmental lapse rate, would be considered as:

  1. ELR
  2. Lapse rate
  3. Super adiabatic
  4. Adiabatic lapse rate
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In man subsidized powered ecosystem, power or energy input by man is, in form of

  1. Fertilizers and machines
  2. Tides and waves
  3. waves and currents
  4. Nuclear energy
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem may be defined as 

  1. A localized association of several plants and animals
  2. Different communities of plants, animals and microbes together with thier physico-chemical environment
  3. Different communities of plants microbes plus their physico-chemical environment
  4. None of the above
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The two components of an ecosystem are 

  1. Biotic and abiotic
  2. Plants and animals
  3. Weeds and micro-organism
  4. Plants and light
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystems may be defined as

  1. A species along with environment
  2. Plant found in water
  3. Plants found on land
  4. All plants and animal species along with environment
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Components of environment are

  1. Biotic
  2. Abiotic
  3. Resources and regulatory factor
  4. All of the above
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When we destroy a forest we destroy

  1. An ecosystem
  2. The environment
  3. Population of wild life
  4. Food and shelter of wild animals
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem contains

  1. Food web
  2. Food chain
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Biotic components include

  1. Only producers
  2. Producers, consumers and decomposers
  3. Only consumers
  4. Only producers and consumers
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following is the definition of ecosystem?

  1. A localised association of seven plants and animals.
  2. Different communities of plants, animals and microbes, together with their physicochemical environments.
  3. Different communities of plants and microbes, plus their physicochemical environments.
  4. A community of organisms interacting with one another.
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two components of ecosystem are

  1. Plants and animals
  2. Trees and fungi
  3. Living and non living
  4. Frogs and man
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are biotic components?

  1. The living components
  2. The non-living components
  3. Both living and non-living
  4. None of these
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An ecosystem is a complex interacting system of

  1. Individuals
  2. Population
  3. Communities and their physical environment
  4. Communities and their soil condition
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem has two components

  1. Plants and animals
  2. Weeds and trees
  3. Biotic and abiotic
  4. Frogs and man
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem has two components. They are

  1. Trees and fungi
  2. Living and non living
  3. Plants and animals
  4. None of these
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Abiotic component in an ecosystem is

  1. Water
  2. Daphnia
  3. Bacteria
  4. Chlorella
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is true in an ecosystem ?

  1. Animals can live without plants
  2. Plants can live without animals
  3. Animals can survive for long without plants
  4. Plants can survive for long without animals
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An ecosystem may be a small or a large sized based on kind of 

  1. Habit
  2. Habitat
  3. Components
  4. Molecules
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an abiotic component?

  1. Plants
  2. Animals
  3. Soil
  4. Microorganisms
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Interaction between biotic and abiotic factors is called as _________. 

  1. Ecology
  2. Ecosystem
  3. Niche
  4. Biomes
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following explains stable ecosystem?

  1. Requires a constant energy source
  2. Requires a living system
  3. Is self-sustaining
  4. Requires cycling of materials between the living system and the environment
  5. All of the above
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The least inclusive level of ecological organization that includes interactions among living and non-living factors is 

  1. A community
  2. A population
  3. A species
  4. A biosphere
  5. An ecosystem
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Biotic factors are

  1. Chemical factors of soil which affect life
  2. Physical factors of soil which affect life
  3. All living organisms which influence other organisms
  4. Factors of atmosphere which affect life
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

An ecosystem contains

  1. Producers
  2. Decomposers
  3. Lentic
  4. Xeric
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Biotic community along with its interacting physical environment comprises

  1. Phytosociology
  2. Phytogeography
  3. Ecosystem
  4. Ecology
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Well known ecosystem ecologist is

  1. P. Maheshwaii
  2. E.P. Odum
  3. M.S. Swaminathan
  4. W. Sutherland
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Stability of ecosystem depends, upon

  1. Primary productivity
  2. Number of producers
  3. Number of consumers
  4. Interchange between producers and consumers
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Given below are the characteristic features of an ecosystem
(a) Little diversity
(b) Little cycling of nutrients
(c) High productivity
These features are correct for

  1. Forest ecosystem
  2. Cropfield ecosystem
  3. Grassland ecosystem
  4. More than one option is correct
Question 64 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

 Why are crop fields known as artificial ecosystems?

  1. Crop fields are man made.
  2. Some biotic and abiotic components are manipulated by humans for the production of crop.
  3. Both A and B.
  4. None of the above.
Question 65 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystems have

  1. energy inputs and outputs
  2. nutrient cycling but not outputs
  3. one trophic level
  4. both (a) and (b)
Question 66 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When we study the full assortment of organisms in an area as well as the abiotic environment that affects them, we are studying the

  1. populations
  2. niche
  3. ecosystem
  4. community
Question 67 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given :
Ecosystems are characterized by

  1. one way flow of energy through the biotic community of an ecosystem
  2. interactions of organisms among themselves and the physical and chemical environment
  3. cycling of materials from the abiotic environmnent through the biotic community and back to the abiotic environment
  4. all of the above
Question 68 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Cropland ecosystem is a natural ecosystem

  1. True
  2. False
Question 69 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An ecosystem is not a self-sufficient unit

  1. True
  2. False
Question 70 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Anthropogenic ecosystems

  1. show high degree of nutrient cycling
  2. show low productivity
  3. show great biodiversity
  4. Do not posses self regulatory mechanism
Question 71 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Upper part of sea/aquatic ecosystem contains

  1. Plankton
  2. Nekton
  3. Plankton and nekton
  4. Benthos
Question 72 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which is not true regarding ecosystem?

  1. Self sufficient unit
  2. Cyclic exchange of materials between living beings and environment
  3. Only requirement is input of energy
  4. Characterized by a major vegetation type
Question 73 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An example of an abiotic component

  1. Plants
  2. Soil
  3. Animals
  4. Bacteria
Question 74 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem was first proposed by A.G Tanslay in

  1. 1937
  2. 1935
  3. 1945
  4. 1938
Question 75 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are two major components of an ecosystem?

  1. Biotic and abiotic factors
  2. Microorganisms
  3. Temperature and humidity
  4. Light and Food
Question 76 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Examples of 'biotic' factors include:

  1. Water
  2. Sunlight
  3. Oxygen
  4. Grass
Question 77 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The term biocoenosis was coined by

  1. Darwin
  2. Haeckel
  3. Odum
  4. Mobius
Question 78 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

__________ is the ecological role and space that an organism fills in the ecosystem.

  1. Ecology
  2. Niche
  3. Biomes
  4. Environment
Question 79 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which is the best example of interaction of biotic and abiotic factors of ecosystem?

  1. Sunlight
  2. Water
  3. Land
  4. Forests
Question 80 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Living organisms has not effect on the abiotic factor around them in an ecosystem.

  1. True
  2. False
  3. Ambiguous
  4. Data insufficient
Question 81 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the odd one out:

  1. Fe
  2. O
  3. $CH _4$
  4. N
Question 82 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An ecosystem is characterized by which of the following

  1. Energy flow
  2. Autotrophs converting solar energy to organic compounds
  3. Decomposers recycling organic matter to inorganic compounds
  4. All of the above
Question 83 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mycorhhiza is an example of : -

  1. Key-stone species
  2. Endemic species
  3. Critical link species
  4. Rare species
Question 84 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Biotic component of biosphere is not constituted by

  1. Producers
  2. Consumers
  3. Decomposer
  4. Air
Question 85 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following constitutes the largest ecosystem of the world?

  1. Ocean
  2. River
  3. Forest
  4. Grassland
Question 86 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Interaction of species with environment is known as

  1. Ecosystem
  2. Community
  3. Predation
  4. Biosphere
Question 87 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The scientists who study ecosystems are called

  1. Ecologists
  2. Economists
  3. Engineers
  4. Environmentalists
Question 88 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ecosystem means

  1. A community of organisms interacting with the environment in which they live
  2. Abiotic components
  3. Organisms reacting with one another
  4. Earth and its atmosphere
Question 89 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these is not an ecosystem?

  1. Desert
  2. Grassland
  3. Town
  4. Tree
Question 90 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The two components of biosphere are

  1. Biotic and abiotic
  2. Plants and animals
  3. Algae and fungi
  4. None of the above
Question 91 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Plants and animals are biotic component in an ecosystem.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 92 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these are positive influences of human beings on the ecosystem?
A. Declaring areas as wildlife sanctuaries
B. Increasing biodegradable packing materials that can be recycled
C. Removing pollutants from toxic industrial smoke
D. Using the natural resources intensively

  1. A,B
  2. B,C
  3. A,B,C
  4. B,C,D