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Questions Related to different ecosystems

The scientists who study ecosystems are called

  1. Ecologists

  2. Economists

  3. Engineers

  4. Environmentalists


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The study of the ecosystem is called "ecology'. The scientists who study the ecosystem are called "ecologists."

Arthur Tansley, who coined the term ecosystem, is known as the first ecologist.
So the correct option is A.

Ecosystem means

  1. A community of organisms interacting with the environment in which they live

  2. Abiotic components

  3. Organisms reacting with one another

  4. Earth and its atmosphere


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The abiotic and biotic components and their interaction with each other combines to form a ecosystem. The biotic components means the living organisms and the abiotic components means the non living factors present in the environment. So, the correct option is A.

Which of these is not an ecosystem?

  1. Desert

  2. Grassland

  3. Town

  4. Tree


Correct Option: C

Plants and animals are biotic component in an ecosystem.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

An ecosystem may be said to be the sum total of all living organisms and nonliving things around us. Living organisms constitute the biotic component of the ecosystem while nonliving things constitute the nonliving one's. 

So, option A is the correct answer.