Conservation of Plants and Animals Worksheet-4

Conservation of Plants and Animals Worksheet-4

1. Which of the following conservation helps to maintain diversity?

(a) Pollution                                  (b) Water sources

(c) Gene pool                                 (d) Forest reserves

2. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the importance of wild life?

(a) Ecological value                     (b) Non-commercial value

(c) Scientific value                       (d) Aesthetic value

3. Which of the following is NOT a vanishing wild animal of India?

(a) Leopard                                    (b) Nilgiri langur

(c) The sloth                                  (d) Fox

4. What is wild life?

(a) All non-domesticated and non-cultivated biota found in their natural habitat

(b) All domesticated and non-domesticated animals

(c) All cultivated plants and non-domesticated animals

(d) All non-cultivated plants and domesticated animals

5. Which of the following regions has a rich flora and fauna?

(a) Deccan plateau                       (b) Lofty Himalayas

(c) Slopes of the Himalayas       (d) Thar desert

6. Flora and Fauna are:

(a) Renewable and non-living resources

(b) Non-renewable and living resources

(c) Renewable and living resources

(d) Non-renewable and non-living resources

7. Wildlife protection act was passed in the year:

(a) 1972              (b) 1970             (c) 1982             (d) 1990

8. Which of the following is NOT an effective way to conserve living organisms?

(a) Carry out afforestation

(b) Establish national parks

(c) Import organisms from other countries

(d) Establish centres to look after endangered species

9. Which of the following human activities may cause the extinction of species?

(a) Using animal parts as traditional medicines

(b) Encouraging game hunting as a sport

(c) Using animal parts as decorative piece

(d) All of these

10. The species of plants and animals which are found exclusively in a particular area are:

(a) Endemic species                    (b) Endangered species

(c) Rare species                            (d) Extinct species

Answer Key:

(1)-(c); (2)-(b); (3)-(d); (4)-(a); (5)-(a); (6)-(c); (7)-(a); (8)-(c); (9)-(d); (10)-(a)