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Multiple choice evs - i issues of the environment eco-system and its destruction ecology and ecosystem ecology and ecosysytem

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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

An ecosystem functions to maintain life by cycling materials and providing structure, which ensures the continuity of various species. The other options are too narrow or incomplete.

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

  1. ELR

  2. Lapse rate

  3. Super adiabatic

  4. Adiabatic lapse rate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When the Environmental Lapse Rate (ELR) is greater than the Adiabatic Lapse Rate (ALR), the atmosphere is considered unstable. This condition is specifically referred to as super-adiabatic.

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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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A man-subsidized ecosystem is one where human intervention provides additional energy to supplement natural processes. Fertilizers and machines are classic examples of such human-provided energy inputs.

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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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

An ecosystem is a natural system consisting of all plants, animals and microorganisms (biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all the non-living physical (abiotic) factors of the environment. These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Ecosystems are defined by the network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment.

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The two components of an ecosystem are 

  1. Biotic and abiotic

  2. Plants and animals

  3. Weeds and micro-organism

  4. Plants and light
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Two main components exist in an ecosystem: abiotic and biotic. The abiotic components of any ecosystem are the properties of the environment; the biotic components are the life forms, that occupy a given ecosystem. 

Examples of abiotic components are temperature, average humidity, topography and natural disturbances. 
Examples of biotic components are producers, such as plants and consumers, such as humans. 

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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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

An ecosystem includes all the living organisms and all the nonliving components of their environment. It comprises of all living things namely plants, animals and organisms interacting with each other and also with their non-living environments, that is earth, air, water, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere, etc. 

Each ecosystem is unique and has three basic components that are autotrophs, heterotrophs and non-living matter. Most autotrophs in an ecosystem are plants while most of the heterotrophs are animals. 
Thus, the correct answer is option D.

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Components of environment are

  1. Biotic

  2. Abiotic

  3. Resources and regulatory factor

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Environment is composed of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components. All components of environment are closely related and they interact with each other.  Environment is composed of both environmental resources and regulatory factor. 

Biotic components include producers, consumers and decomposers.
Abiotic components include temperature, light intensity, moisture, water levels, air currents, energy radiation, carbon dioxide levels, pH of water, soil etc.
Some component of the environment serves as resources while other serves as regulatory factors. 

Resources include air, water, biota, land and geological and natural resources. Regulatory factors include temperature, light, weather etc.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice commercial applications issues of the environment eco-system and its destruction ecology and ecosystem ecology and ecosysytem

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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When we destroy a forest, we destroy an ecosystem. It is because ecosystem constitutes of both abiotic and biotic components. The biotic components constitute all the living organisms present in the ecosystem, i.e. plants and animals. Whereas, abiotic components constitute the environmental factors like air, soil, water etc. When a forest is destroyed, it results in the loss of food and habitat of wild animals, due to which the population of wildlife is threatened. The loss of forest also results in deforestation, which affects the environment by raising the temperature and causing a flood. So, the correct option is A.

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Ecosystem contains

  1. Food web

  2. Food chain

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In ecology, a food web describes the feeding connections between organisms in a biotic community. Both energy and nutrients flow through a food web, moving through organisms as they are consumed by an organism above them in the food web. A single path of energy through a food web is called a food chain. A food web consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem. Each living thing in an ecosystem is part of multiple food chains. Each food chain is one possible path that energy and nutrients may take as they move through the ecosystem. All of the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a food web.

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Biotic components include

  1. Only producers

  2. Producers, consumers and decomposers

  3. Only consumers

  4. Only producers and consumers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The biotic components of an ecosystem are the lifeforms that inhabit it. The life forms of an ecosystem aid in the transfer and cycle of energy. Examples of biotic components are producers and consumers. There are three main types of consumers: herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.