EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE

                                                                                                                                                    Proff. R. S. Senagr

1.Prehensile feet is a characteristic of:

(a) Kangaroo      (b) Tree frog

(c) Desert snakes (d) Parrot

Ans. B

2. Blubber is a characteristic of:

(a) Aquatic animals

(b) Reptiles

(c) Cartilaginous fish

(d)Bony fishes

Ans. A

3. Tree frogs have:

(a) Adhesive pads with sticky secretion at the tips of the digits for climbing

(b) Nuptial pads in their thumfor clinging

(c) Adhesive pads I their palms for clinging

(d) Claws for clinging on the trees

Ans. A

4. Uromastix store water in:

(a) Large intestine     (b) Small intestine

(c) Buccal cavity     (d) Stomach

Ans. B

5. The organism capable of climbing are categorized as:

(a) Volant        (b) Cursorial

(c) Scansorial     (d) Fosorial

Ans. C

6. The flying dragon is:

(a) Exocoetus     (b) Draco

(c) Rhacophorus  (d) Pteropus

Ans. B

7. The highly spiny desert lizard is:

(a) Mabuia        (b) Moloch

(c) Phrynosoma   (d) Heloderma

Ans. B

8. In marsupial moles, eyes are:

(a) With well developed rods and cones

(b) With keen eyesight to locate food

(c) Very powerful sensory organ

(d) Vestigial

Ans. D

9. One of the following desert animals have poison, the most deadly weapon of defence:

(a) Rattle snake   (b) Heloderma

(c) Red ant       (d) All of these

Ans. D

10. In Fossorial animals, tail is:

(a) Always absent

(b) Very strong & powerful

(c) Very small

(d) Very long

Ans. C

11. Short term adaptions are:

(a) Evolutionary importance

(b) Both A = b

(c) Of survival value

(d) Temporary

Ans. B

12. Animals having two footed mode of progression comes under:

(a) Bipedal gait

(b) Uniguligrade gait

(c) Digitgrades gait

(d) None of the above

Ans. A

13. Any modification in any part of the body that enable the organism to survive and reproduce within the particular environment is:

(a) Speciation     (b) Adaption

(c) Aestivation    (d) Variaion

Ans. B

14. The animals that live in caves are:

(a) Curosorial     (b) Cavernicoles

(c) Crepuscular    (d) Fussirial

Ans. B

15. Presence of long slender limbs, powerful muscles, reduced ulna &fibua is a characteristic of:

(a) Fossosial adaptation

(b) Curosorial adaption

(c) Cave adaptation

(d) Desert adaptation

Ans. B

Writer: Professor R. S. Sengar, Director Training and Placement, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Modipuram, Meerut.