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Multiple choice zoology environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components organisms and environment

I. Temperature
II. Humidity
III. Vegetation 
The abiotic factors of ecosystem include

  1. I only

  2. II only

  3. III only

  4. I and II only

  5. I, II and III

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

Biotic factors of an ecosystem include all plant and animal species present in there. The abiotic factors include a physical environment in which they can survive. It includes light, temperature, humidity and other climatic condition as well as physical factors like soil. Thus, the correct answer is D. 

Multiple choice botany environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components

Edaphology is the relationship between

  1. Plant and biosphere

  2. Animal and ecosystem

  3. Soil and living organisms

  4. Soil and biosphere

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

Edaphology is the branch of soil science that studies the influence of soil on living organisms, particularly plants. It focuses on how soil properties affect biological systems and how organisms interact with the soil environment.

Multiple choice zoology environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components organisms and environment

The part of the biosphere which contains soil is known as 

  1. Pedosphere

  2. Lithosphere

  3. Hygrosphere

  4. Toposphere

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
  • Pedosphere is an outer layer of earth that contains soil.
  • Lithosphere includes the brittle upper portion of the mantle, crust and Mantles are made of rock or ices. 
  • Hydrosphere contains all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas.
  • Troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, closest to the earth's surface. so option A is a correct answer.
Multiple choice zoology environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components organisms and environment

In a .......... ecosystem, the producers are mostly herbaceous or woody plants.

  1. Terrestrial

  2. Aquatic

  3. Desert

  4. None of these

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

Herbaceous plants are plants with very flexible stems. Woody plants include trees and shrubs. These are the plants present in the terrestrial ecosystem. They convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis in which carbon dioxide and water are used in presence of sunlight to synthesize nutrients such carbohydrates in the form of glucose and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Since plants form the base of the terrestrial ecosystem they are the producers.

Multiple choice zoology environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components organisms and environment

Environment consists of

  1. land, air, water

  2. light, temperature and rainfall

  3. plants, animals and microbes

  4. All the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
The environment consists of two major components:
  • Abiotic components: These are non-living components of the environment and consist of two things, materials and energy (that may be light or chemical energy). Materials include land, air, water, minerals, salts, atmospheric gases, rainfall, temperature etc.
  • Biotic components: These are living components of the environment and divided into autotrophic and heterotrophic components. An autotrophic component is the producers or green plants while heterotrophic component includes consumers (primary, secondary and tertiary consumers) and decomposers (microbes).
Hence, all the given options are correct.
So, the correct answer is 'All the above'.
Multiple choice zoology environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components organisms and environment

Which of the following components of biosphere makes an interface with the soil?

  1. Pedosphere

  2. Troposhere

  3. Atmosphere

  4. Stratosphere

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

The pedosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth that is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes, forming the direct interface between the biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.