General Knowledge Pointers - 11

● What is the number of plant species estimated to be present in India?

Answer :- 40,000,

● Which group has the highest number of endangered species?

Answer :- Reptiles,

● Silent valley having rare plant and animal is located in which state?

Answer :- Kerala,

● Which is the first national park established in India?

Answer :- Corbet,

● Insectivorous plant generally grow in soil which is deficient in which gas?

Answer :- Nitrogen,

● What is one-way relationship where one species benefits at the expense of another is called?

Answer :- Parasitism,

● What is symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit is best described?

Answer :- Mutualism,

● Which of a species describes the tropic function it fills in its environment?

Answer :- Niche,

● What is the least influential in determining the distribution of terrestrial biomes?

Answer :- Salinity,

● The massive hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctica was first discovered in which year?

Answer :- 1985,

● Which animals have a diet mainly consisting of bamboo?

Answer :- Red pandas,

● A bullet hits and gets embedded in a solid block resting on a horizontal frictionless table. What is conserved’?

Answer :- Momentum,

● What is formed by strong heating of potassium petmanganate?

Answer :- O2,

● Most of the digestion occur in which part of alimentory canal of man?

Answer :- Small intestine,

● What is the Branch of biology in which we study about relationship between living and their environment?

Answer :- Ecology,

● Why does a man inside an artificial satellite feels weightlessness?

Answer :- Because the force of attraction due to earth is zero at that earth is,

● Which has the longest wave length?

Answer :- Infra red radiation,

● Which plant produce seed but not fruit?

Answer :- Mint,

● Why is yeast is used in bakery in the preparation of bread?

Answer :- Because it make bread soft and spongy,

● Which variety of glass is used for the manufacture of optical glasses?

Answer :- Flint glass,

● Sex determination of child is done by whose chromosome?

Answer :- Father,

● Which crop enrich the soil with nitrogen?

Answer :- Pea,

● At constant temperature, the product of pressure and volume of a given amount of a gas is constant, whose this law?

Answer :- Boyles’law,