Olympiad – Class IX – Science - Bio - Diversity in Living Organisms

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Question - 1

Which of the following animals can keep their body temperature constant?

  • A Sparrows and frogs
  • B Sharks and sea horses
  • C Whales and bats
  • D Frogs and snakes

Question - 2

Which of the following organisms has tube feet as its locomotory organs?

  • A Star fish
  • B Jelly fish
  • C Cuttle fish
  • D Silver fish

Question - 3

Which of the following are the characteristic features of cnidaria?

  • A Radial symmetry, acoelomate and diploblastic body
  • B Bilateral symmetry, unsegmented and diploblastic body
  • C Triploblastic and coelomate body
  • D Radial symmetry, coelomate and triploblastic body

Question - 4

Which of the following kingdoms comprise algae?

  • A Monera
  • B Animalia
  • C Plantae
  • D Fungi

Question - 5

Which of the following is an egg-laying mammal?

  • A Duck-billed platypus
  • B Kangaroo
  • C Whale
  • D Bat

Question - 6

Which of the following pairs of organisms and their characteristic features is wrongly paired?

  • A Earthworm-annelids, invertebrata, setae
  • B Butterfly-insecta, invertebrata, arthropoda
  • C Snail-annelida, invertebrata, muscular foot
  • D Paramecium-cilia, protozoa, lacks cell wall

Question - 7

What is classification?

  • A Grouping things together on the basis of the features they have in common
  • B Grouping things together on the basis of how they respire
  • C Grouping things together on the basis of how they feed
  • D Grouping things together on the basis of how they survive

Question - 8

Which of the following is the most commonly used classification scheme?

  • A Linnaeus, five kingdom scheme.
  • B Whittaker, five kingdom scheme.
  • C Darwin, five kingdom scheme.
  • D Hooke, five kingdom scheme.

Question - 9

Which of the following are the characteristics of kingdom Protista?

  • A Multicellular organisms whose chromosomes are not enclosed in a nuclear membrane
  • B Unicellular organisms whose chromosomes are not enclosed in a nuclear membrane
  • C Unicellular organisms whose chromosomes are enclosed in a nuclear membrane
  • D Multicellular organisms whose chromosomes are enclosed in a nuclear membrane

Question - 10

Which of the following trees/plants have seeds enclosed in the fruit?

  • A Angiosperms
  • B Gymnosperms
  • C Cryptogams
  • D All of the above