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The document contains a series of questions related to the chapter on 'Organisms and Populations' for the year 2025, focusing on various topics such as pollination, predation, adaptations, population dynamics, and ecological interactions. It includes questions on specific organisms like orchids, marine fish, and parasites, as well as broader concepts like age pyramids and population density. The questions aim to assess understanding of ecological principles and the relationships between organisms and their environments.

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Question Chap 11 Organisms and Populations

The document contains a series of questions related to the chapter on 'Organisms and Populations' for the year 2025, focusing on various topics such as pollination, predation, adaptations, population dynamics, and ecological interactions. It includes questions on specific organisms like orchids, marine fish, and parasites, as well as broader concepts like age pyramids and population density. The questions aim to assess understanding of ecological principles and the relationships between organisms and their environments.

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Sure Shot Questions 2025

Chapter – 11
Organisms and Populations
(a) Fungi
➢ Questions (b) Zooplankton
(c) Bear
1. (a) Explain how it is ensured that the orchid Ophrys (d) Snails
is pollinated by a specific species of bee.
(b) Describe co-evolution with the help of this 12. Explain with the help of figure, the three different
example. types of age pyramids represented by a human
population.
2. Predation is referred to as a detrimental
interaction. 13. Mention the special adaptation evolved in
Explain any three positive roles, supported by an parasites and why?
example each, that a predator plays in an
ecosystem. 14. How do kangaroo, rats and desert plants adapt
themselves to survive in their extreme habitat?
3. Explain in short the adaptive mechanism of Explain.
suspension. Justify your answer using an example.
15. An orchid plant is growing on the branch of mango
4. If a marine fish is placed in the fresh water tree. How do you describe this interaction
aquarium, will the fish be able to survive? Why or between the orchid and a mango tree ?
why not?
16. (i) What is “population” according to you as
5. Explain the birth rate and death rate in the biology student ?
population with the help of an example. What is (ii) “The size of a population for any species is not a
age pyramid? static parameter. “Justify the statement with
OR specific reference to fluctuation in the population
What is age pyramid? density of a region in a given period of time.

6. Name important defence mechanisms in the plant 17. (i) Name the two growth models that represent
against herbivory. population growth and draw the respective growth
curves they represent.
7. ome organisms suspend their metabolic activities (ii) State the basis for the difference in the shape of
to survive in unfavourable conditions. Explain with these curves.
the help of any four examples. (iii) Which one of the curves represent the human
population growth at present ? Do you think such a
8. How does Monarch butterfly defend itself from the curve is sustainable? Give reason in support of your
predators? Explain. answer.

9. Explain brood parasitism with the help of an 18. What would be the best method to measure the
example. total population density of the number of fishes in
river and why?
10. Why the plants that inhabit a desert are not found
in a mangrove? Give reasons. 19. (a) How will you measure population density of
fish in a lake ?
11. How do the following organisms pull through the
adverse environmental conditions?
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(b) In a pond, there are 100 frogs. 20 more were (b) Write the basis on which the above pyramids
born in a year. Calculate the birth rate of this are plotted.
population.
20. Differentiate between parasitism and competition, 27. Study the graph given below and answer the
giving one example of each. State the common questions that folk)w.
characteristic they share.

21. Name the interaction that exists between Cuscuta


and shoe – flower plant.

22. Name the type of interaction seen between fig


and wasps. (a) Write the status of food and space in the curves
A and B.
23. Write a short note on: (b) In the absence of predators, which one of the
(i) Adaptations of desert plants and animals. two curves would appropriately depict the prey
(ii) Adaptations of plants to the water scarcity. population?
(iii) Behavioural adaptations in animals. (c) Time has been shown on X-axis and there is a
(iv) Importance of light to plants. parallel dotted line above it. Give the significance of
(v) Effect of temperature or water scarcity and the this dotted line.
adaptations of animals.
28. Draw and explain expanding age pyramids of
24. The population of a metro city experiences human population. Why is it so called?
fluctuations in its population density over a period
of time. 29. (a) Write the importance of measuring the size of
(a) When does the population in a metro city tend a population in a habitat or an ecosystem,
to increase? (b) Explain with the help of an example how the
(b) When does the population in a metro city tend percentage cover is a more meaningful measure of
to decline? population size than more numbers.
(c) If N is the population density at time 't', write
the population density at time 't + 1'. 30.

25.

A forest hardly has any carnivores. Census of


Study the schematic representation given above herbivorous mammals was taken and plotted as a
and answer the following questions. graph shown above. Identify the curve that will
(a) Identify A in it. explain the population growth of herbivores. Give
(b) Identify B in it. reason to your answer.
(c) When population density at time t is N as shown
above, write the population density at time t +1 in 31. (a) Write how parasites have evolved with
the form of an equation using appropriate symbols. adaptation to co-exist with their host in an
ecosystem.
26. Study the age pyramids A', 'B' and 'C of the human (b) Parasites are host specific and tend to coevolve.
population given below and answer the questions How would the parasite respond if the host evolve a
that follow: certain mechanism to resist or reject the parasite?

32. Mention the special adaptations evolved in


parasites and why?
33. Describe the mutual relationship between fig tree
and wasp and comment on the phenomenon that
(a) Identify pyramids 'B' and 'C’. operates in their relationship.

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