Explore topic-wise MCQs in Biology.

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1.

What is a biotic succession occurring in the barren area where there once life existed called?

A. Secondary succession
B. Primary succession
C. Tertiary succession
D. Quaternary succession
Answer» B. Primary succession
2.

What is a biotic succession occurring on a previously unoccupied or bare land called?

A. Quaternary succession
B. Secondary succession
C. Tertiary succession
D. Primary succession
Answer» E.
3.

How many types do an ecological succession has?

A. Three types
B. Two types
C. Four types
D. Five types
Answer» C. Four types
4.

Which factors influence a biotic community?

A. Biotic and chemical factors only
B. Biotic and geographical factors only
C. Biotic, physicochemical and geographical factors
D. Geographical factors only
Answer» D. Geographical factors only
5.

How were the processes of succession and evolution millions of years ago?

A. Perpendicular
B. Parallel
C. Intersecting
D. Random
Answer» C. Intersecting
6.

How many years has succession occurred so that the present-day communities are observed?

A. 10 years
B. 2 years
C. Millions of years
D. Hundreds of years
Answer» D. Hundreds of years
7.

How are seral stages when there is an increase in the number of species, change in the diversity of species and an increase in the total biomass?

A. Disordered
B. Random
C. Alternative
D. Successive
Answer» E.
8.

What is a seral community alternatively called?

A. Seral succession
B. Seral ecosystem
C. Seral stage
D. Seral issues
Answer» D. Seral issues
9.

What are the individual transitional communities called?

A. Seral issues
B. Seral succession
C. Seral ecosystem
D. Seral communities
Answer» E.
10.

What is the successively changing sequence of communities in a given area called?

A. Succession
B. Sere
C. Issue
D. Community
Answer» C. Issue
11.

What phenomenon occurs during an ecological succession?

A. All species disappear
B. All species survive
C. Some species grow while other species decline
D. Species grow at the same rate
Answer» D. Species grow at the same rate
12.

What is the predictable and gradual change in the species composition of a given area called?

A. Environmental issues
B. Climax community
C. Pioneer community
D. Ecological succession
Answer» E.
13.

What do the changes in a community that is in near equilibrium with the environment lead to the formation of?

A. Mixed community
B. Climax community
C. Total community
D. Naive community
Answer» C. Total community
14.

How is the change in communities?

A. Orderly and sequential
B. Parallel
C. Perpendicular
D. Random
Answer» B. Parallel
15.

Which of the following is an important characteristic of all communities?

A. All individuals grow at the same rate
B. Composition and structure constantly changes
C. Composition and structure remains constant
D. Communities are static in nature
Answer» C. Composition and structure remains constant