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This document contains a 20 question assessment on organisms and populations for the IGNITOR Sales Institute. The questions cover topics like the definitions of population and microhabitat, examples of symbiosis and hydrophytes, how xerophytes and reptiles adapt to their environments, population growth curves, and different types of species interactions like mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. The student is instructed to select the correct answer for each multiple choice question within the time limit.

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This document contains a 20 question assessment on organisms and populations for the IGNITOR Sales Institute. The questions cover topics like the definitions of population and microhabitat, examples of symbiosis and hydrophytes, how xerophytes and reptiles adapt to their environments, population growth curves, and different types of species interactions like mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. The student is instructed to select the correct answer for each multiple choice question within the time limit.

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School Name: IGNITOR Sales Institute

Test Name: 13. Organisms and populations


Total Questions: 20
Marks: 20
Duration: 0 minutes
Student Name:

Instructions for Assessment:

1. What is a population? 1.0

a. Population is a group of similar individuals living in a geographical area, sharing


similar resources, and capable of interbreeding.
b. Population is a group of similar individuals living in a geographical area, sharing
similar resources but not capable of interbreeding.
c. Population is a group of different species living together, sharing similar resources,
and capable of interbreeding.
d. Population is a group of individuals living in different geographical areas and sharing
resources.
2. Which of the following is an example of a microhabitat? 1.0

a. Forest floor
b. Pond
c. Desert
d. Ocean
3. What is symbiosis? 1.0

a. It is an interspecific interaction where both the partners are benefited.


b. It is an intraspecific interaction where both the partners are benefited.
c. It is an interspecific interaction where neither partners are benefited.
d. None of the above.
4. Which of the following is a biotic factor? 1.0

a. Temperature
b. Water
c. Soil
d. Pathogens

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5. What are the biological organizations studied under ecology? 1.0

a. Burrow
b. Group of individuals
c. African population
d. Community
6. Which of the following are modifications of leaves in xerophytes? 1.0

a. Leaves are reduced to small scales


b. Leaves are modified into spines
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
7. Which of the following is an example of a floating but rooted hydrophyte? 1.0

a. Nymphaea
b. Hydrilla
c. Pistia
d. Marselia
8. Where do Xerophytes grow? 1.0

a. In regions where there is direct sunlight


b. In regions where there is less water
c. In regions where there is more water
d. In regions where there is no sunlight
9. Which phenomenon is exhibited by reptiles basking in the sun in cold climatic
1.0
conditions?

a. Physiological adaptation
b. Poikilothermic reaction
c. Behavioural adaptation
d. Homeothermism
10. What kind of a response is hibernation? 1.0

a. Regulatory
b. Conformance
c. Migration
d. Suspension
11. In which of the following scenarios would you see an exponential growth curve? 1.0

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a. Resources in the habitat are unlimited
b. Demographic transition occurs
c. High TFR is seen
d. Species have high fecundity
12. Which of the following is observed during exponential phase of growth in a
1.0
population?

a. Stationary growth
b. Lag growth due to increased competition
c. Rapid increase due to availability of food and no competition
d. Slow growth due to increase in redators
13. Which one of the following helps in controlling population? 1.0

a. Mortality
b. Demographic transition
c. Culling
d. Migration
14. Natality and mortality are the important indicators of which of the following? 1.0

a. Physiological adaptation
b. Darwinism
c. Population growth
d. Logistic growth
15. In which of the following scenarios would you see a logistic growth curve? 1.0

a. Species have high mortality


b. Populations have high natality
c. Resources in a habitat are unlimited
d. Resources in a habitat are limited
16. Which of the following is depicted by pollination of flowers by insects? 1.0

a. Mutualism
b. Commensalism
c. Parasitism
d. Amensalism
17. Lichen is a symbiotic association of which of the following? 1.0

a. Birds and plants


b. Algae and bacteria
c. Fungus and bacteria
d. Fungus and green algae

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18. Which of the following is the smaller species that benefits in commensalism? 1.0

a. Host
b. Commensal
c. Epiphyte
d. Epizoan
19. Which of the following is an example of fixed commensalism? 1.0

a. Humming bird-bees
b. Zoochlorella-Hydra
c. Lichen-algae
d. Sucker fish-shark
20. Drosera, Nepenthes and Dionaea are the examples of which of the following? 1.0

a. Parasitism
b. Darwinism
c. Commensalism
d. Predation

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