The pathway through which nutrient element are replenished and circulated in an
ecosystem is called a
A. Cycle
B. Food chain
C. food web
D. Kreb�s cycle
ANSWER: A
All of the following can illustrate the dynamic nature of the ecosystem except
A. Nitrogen cycle
B. Carbon cycle
C. Water cycle
D. Locomotion in organisms
ANSWER: D
Which of these processes removes carbon from the atmosphere?
A. putrefaction of animal
B. burning of fuels
C. photosynthesis
D. volcanic eruption
ANSWER: C
Which of the following processes removes water from the water cycle?
A. condensation
B. Perspiration
C. Photosynthesis
D. Transpiration
ANSWER: C
Carbon is added to the atmosphere by the following processes except
A. Respiration
B. Burning
C. Photosynthesis
D. Volcanic eruption
ANSWER: C
The following life processes are common to both plants and animals except
A. respiration
B. growth
C. reproduction
D. photosynthesis
ANSWER: D
Which of the following bacteria reduces nitrates in the soil to gaseous nitrogen?
A. Putrefying bacteria
B. Nitrifying bacteria
C. Saprophytic bacteria
D. Denitrifying bacteria
ANSWER: D
The burning of farmland should be discouraged because it
A. Destroy some plant pests
B. Reduces the population of wild animals on the farm
C. Makes bush clearing more difficult
D. Destroys the organic part of the soil
ANSWER: D
The farming practice by which an exhausted farm land is left for a numbers of years
before cultivation is known as
A. Crop rotation
B. Bush fallowing
C. Mono-cropping
D. Bush burning
ANSWER: B
Which of the following farm practices can cause loss of soil fertility?
A. Mulching
B. Compost application
C. Intensive cropping
D. Use of fertilizer
ANSWER: C
The importance of practising crop-rotation in agriculture is to
A. Control soil erosion
B. Maintain the fertility of the soil
C. Improve the natural value of crops
D. Ensure growth of cash crops
ANSWER: B
Which of the following measures is most likely to cause damage to the ecosystem in
the control of pest and weeds?
A. Use of ladybird insects to feed on aphids
B. Introduction of bacterium to kill larvae of butterfly
C. Introducing of tilapia fish in ponds to feed on mosquito larvae
D. Spraying insecticide to destroy cotton strainer in a cotton field
ANSWER: B
A vegetable farmer will benefit from a cattle rear in
A. The faecal remains of the cattle are made available to the farmer
B. The farmer provides shelter for the cattle and the cattle rearer
C. The cattle feed on the weed surrounding the vegetable
D. The cattle rearer makes available meat to the farmer daily
ANSWER: A
Soil fertility can be conserved and renewed by
A. Yearly mono-cropping
B. Crop rotation and cover crops
C. Avoiding artificial manures
D. Irrigation of land
ANSWER: B
The process whereby micro �organisms can convert atmospheric nitrogen into
nitrogenous compound is known as
A. Nitrogen cycle
B. Nitrogen fixation
C. Putrefaction
D. Decomposition
ANSWER: B
Micro- organisms which break down dead organisms and absorb their content are
called
A. Decomposers
B. Consumers
C. Parasites
D. Commensals
ANSWER: A
The substances recycled in the soil by the activities of micro- organisms during
the decay of dead organism are first utilized by the
A. Carnivores
B. Herbivores
C. Scavengers
D. Autotrophs
ANSWER: D
Micro-organism are important in recycling nutrient because
A. They are capable of multiplying quickly
B. They can occur anywhere
C. They break down dead organic materials
D. Many of them are parasite
ANSWER: C
How do animals get the carbon they need?
A. decomposing
B. combustion
C. eating plants�
D. breathing it in
ANSWER: C
What role do animals play in the carbon cycle?
A. absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
B. give off carbon dioxide through respiration
C. combustion
D. decomposing matter
ANSWER: B
What is one of the way that carbon dioxide can be put back into the atmosphere?
A. Sunlight
B. Burning of Fossil Fuels
C. Ocean uptake
D. Rain
ANSWER: B
How does nitrogen become part of the food chain?
A. Through transpiration by plants
B. Through uptake of nitrogen compounds in the soil by plants
C. Through factory emission and combustion of fossil fuels
D. Sunlight changes nitrogen into usable forms
ANSWER: B
Where do animals get nitrogen from?
A. from the soil
B. directly from the air
C. from water they drink
D. from plants they eat
ANSWER: D
What is the most abundant gas in our atmosphere?
A. carbon dioxide
B. oxygen
C. nitrogen
D. water
ANSWER: C
Nitrogen in the atmosphere is not available. �Free nitrogen has to be changed into
a usable form in a process called __
A. nitrogen fixation
B. transpiration
C. precipitation
D. respiration
ANSWER: A
What are the two ways nitrogen gas is turned into a form plants and animals can
use?
A. lightning & bacteria
B. bacteria & worms
C. lightning �& worms
D. bacteria & fungi
ANSWER: A
Autotrophs are also described as
A. consumers
B. decomposers
C. carnivores
D. producers
ANSWER: D
Which of the following groups of organisms feeds directly on green plants?
A. producer
B. decomposer
C. primary consumer
D. secondary consumer
ANSWER: C
Which of the following would be the primary producer in a food chain?
A. saprophytes
B. herbivores
C. carnivores
D. green plants
ANSWER: D
A secchi disc is used in the determination of
A. rainfall
B. tides
C. waves
D. turbidity
ANSWER: D
An anemometer is an instrument for measuring
A. relative humidity
B. altitude
C. wind speed
D. turbidity
ANSWER: C
Soil with the finest particles is called
A. silt
B. clay
C. sand
D. gravel
ANSWER: B
A hygrometer is used for measuring
A. relative humidity
B. specific gravity
C. light intensity
D. turbidity
ANSWER: A
Which of the following will have highest biomass?
A. small fish
B. tadpole
C. hawk
D. phytoplankton
ANSWER: D
Which of the following organisms is a producer?
A. Spirogyra
B. Minor
C. Rhizopus
D. Fungus
ANSWER: A
In any food chain, the first member must be a(n)
A. carnivore
B. herbivore
C. zooplankton
D. autotroph
ANSWER: D
The relationship between a herbivore and the bacteria which live in its caecum is
known as
A. parasitism
B. symbiosis
C. commensalism
D. saprophytism
ANSWER: B
Water rises most rapidly in
A. sandy soil
B. clayey soil
C. loamy soil
D. humus soil
ANSWER: A
Which of the following is a pollutant of air
A. oxygen
B. water vapour
C. carbon monoxide
D. nitrogen
ANSWER: C
which of the following is not an effect of overcrowding on a population?
A. Death
B. Competition
C. Commensalism
D. Cannibalism
ANSWER: C
which of the following factors does not control population growth?
A. food shortage
B. emmigration
C. abundance of food
D. Predation
ANSWER: C
Which of these organisms will have the lowest population in an ecosystem?
A. hawk
B. preying mantis
C. mouse
D. grasshopper
ANSWER: A
Density, mortality rate, birth rate are the factors that affect
A. population
B. predominance
C. cover
D. habitat
ANSWER: A
Which of the following is an abiotic factor?
A. predation
B. rainfall
C. cropping
D. grazing
ANSWER: B
Which of the following is an abiotic factor which affect a population?
A. predator
B. parasite
C. consumer
D. temperature
ANSWER: D
Which of the following factors may not cause overcrowding?
A. Limited space
B. scarcity of food
C. reduced birth rate
D. loose immigration
ANSWER: C
Which of the following habitat cannot be used for the study of succession?
A. savannah grassland
B. abandoned farmland
C. a pond
D. well cultivated land
ANSWER: D
Which of the following statements is not true of a climax vegetation? It
A. is an ecological phenomenon
B. is a stable community
C. eliminates competition
D. results from succession
ANSWER: C
Which group of plants would be the first colonizers in an ecological succession
changing rock to soil
A. Mosses
B. Ferns
C. Lichens
D. Grasses
ANSWER: C
Which of the following cannot be associated with overcrowding?
A. epidemic
B. competition
C. food shortage
D. succession
ANSWER: D
