Unique Academic Board Solutions for Exercise 1: Self-Evaluation Test
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Questions from Unique Academic Board Solutions for Exercise 1: Self-Evaluation Test with Hints & Solutions
Consider the following statements about an ecotone:
1. It is the coinciding zone or a transition area between two or more ecosystems.
2. The ecotone may comprise of biodiversity which does not exist in the adjacent areas.
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With reference to Ecological Pyramids, consider the following statements:
1. In case a pyramid is upright, it means that in an ecosystem, producers are more in number and biomass than the herbivores, and herbivores are more in number and biomass than the carnivores.
2. In an ecological pyramid of the sea, biomass at a lower trophic level is less as compared to the same at a higher level.
3. One of the major loopholes in a pyramid is that saprophytes or organisms living on dead organic matter are not given any place in it.
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Consider the following statements with regard to the carbon cycle:
1. Carbon cycling occurs at different levels involving the atmosphere, ocean, and through the living and dead organisms.
2. Decomposers do not contribute to the CO2 pool by any means.
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Which of the following is the largest land biome?
Which of the following constitute Detritivores?
. Earthworms
. Woodlice
. Millipedes
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Consider the following statements:
1. Bioaccumulation is the increase in concentration of a pollutant from the environment to the first organism in a food chain.
2. Biomagnification is the tendency of the pollutants to concentrate as they move from one tropic level to the next.
Which of the statement (s) is/are incorrect?
Consider the following:
1. Seed dispersal
2. Air Purification
3. Detoxification
4. Carbon sequestration
Which of the above can be said to be Ecosystem services?
Consider the following statements.
1. Ecozones are the Biogeographic division of the Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms.
2. Ecozone comprises only land parts of Earth surface, while the biomes comprise both aquatic and land parts.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
