CBSE Class 9 Biology Diversity In Living Organisms Worksheet Set C

Question: Corals are
a) Poriferans attached to some solid support
b) Cnidarians, that are solitary living
c) Poriferans present at the sea bed
d) Cnidarians that live-in colonies
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following is not a criterion for classification of living organisms?
a) Body design of the organism
b) Ability to produce one’s own food
c) Membrane bound nucleus and cell organelles
d) Height of the plant
Answer: d

Question: Skeleton is made entirely of cartilage in
a) Sharks
b) Tuna
c) Rohu
d) None of these
Answer: a

Question: Identify a member of porifera
a) Spongilla
b) Euglena
c) Penicillium
d) Hydra
Answer: a

Question: Which one is the most striking or (common) character of the vertebrates?
a) Presence of notochord
b) Presence of triploblastic condition
c) Presence of gill pouches
d) Presence of coelom
Answer: a

Question: Pteridophyta do not have
a) root
b) stem
c) flowers
d) leaves
Answer: c

Question: In which group of animals, coelom is filled with blood?
a) Arthropoda
b) Annelida
c) Nematoda
d) Echinodermata
Answer: a

Question: Find out the false statement
a) Aves are warm blooded, egg laying and have four chambered heart
b) Aves have feather covered body, fore limbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs
c) Most of the mammals are viviparous
d) Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous
Answer: d

Question: The locomotory organs of Echinodermata are
a) tube feet
b) muscular feet
c) jointed legs
d) parapodia
Answer: a

Question: Find out incorrect sentence
a) Protista includes unicellular eukaryotic organisms
b) Whittaker considered cell structure, mode and source of nutrition for classifying the organisms in five kingdoms
c) Both Monera and Protista may be autotrophic and heterotrophic
d) Monerans have well defined nucleus
Answer: d

Question: One of the following is not an Annelid
a) Nereis
b) Earthworm
c) Leech
d) Urchins
Answer: d

Question: Amphibians do not have the following
a) Three chambered heart
b) Gills or lungs
c) Scales
d) Mucus glands
Answer: c

Question: Which is not an aquatic animal?
a) Hydra
b) Jelly fish
c) Corals
d) Filaria
Answer: d

Question: Elephantiasis is caused by
a) Wuchereria
b) Pinworm
c) Planarians
d) Liver flukes
Answer: a

Question: The ‘Origin of Species’ is written by
a) Linnaeus
b) Darwin
c) Hackel
d) Whittaker
Answer: b

Question: Hard calcium carbonate structures are used as skeleton by
a) Echinodermata
b) Protochordata
c) Arthropoda
d) Nematoda
Answer: a

Question: Which among the following produce seeds?
a) Thallophyta
b) Bryophyta
c) Pteridophyta
d) Gymnosperms
Answer: d

Question: Which among the following is exclusively marine?
a) Porifera
b) Echinodermata
c) Mollusca
d) Pisces
Answer: b

Question: Which one is a true fish?
a) Jellyfish
b) Starfish
c) Dogfish
d) Silverfish
Answer: c

Question: Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms
a) Robert Whittaker
b) Carolus Linnaeus
c) Robert Hooke
d) Ernst Haeckel
Answer: b

Question: Differentiation in segmental fashion occurs in
a) Leech
b) Starfish
c) Snails
d) Ascaris
Answer: a

Question: In taxonomic hierarchy family comes between
a) Class and Order
b) Order and Genus
c) Genus and Species
d) Division and Class
Answer: b

Question: Meena and Hari observed an animal in their garden. Hari called it an insect while Meena said it was an earthworm. Choose the character from the following which confirms that it is an insect.
a) Bilateral symmetrical body
b) Body with jointed legs
c) Cylindrical body
d) Body with little segmentation
Answer: b

Question: The book Systema Naturae was written by
a) Linnaeus
b) Haeckel
c) Whittaker
d) Robert Brown
Answer: a

Question: The feature that is not a characteristic of protochordata is
a) Presence of notochord
b) Bilateral symmetry and coelom
c) Jointed legs
d) Presence of circulatory system
Answer: c

Question: Real organs are absent in
a) Mollusca
b) Coelenterata
c) Arthropoda
d) Echinodermata
Answer: b

Question: Well defined nucleus is absent in
a) Blue green algae
b) Diatoms
c) Algae
d) Yeast
Answer: a

Question: Karl Von Linne was involved with which branch of science?
a) Morphology
b) Taxonomy
c) Physiology
d) Medicine
Answer: b

Question: 5-Kingdom classification was given by
a) Morgan
b) R. Whittaker
c) Linnaeus
d) Haeckel
Answer: b

Question: Two chambered heart occurs in
a) Crocodiles
b) Fish
c) Aves
d) Amphibians
Answer: b

Question: Organisms without nucleus and cell organelles belong to
(i) fungi
(ii) protista
(iii) Cyanobacteria
(iv) archaebacteria
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iv)
(d) (ii) and (iii)
Answer: b

Question: Which among the following have open circulatory system?
(i) Arthropoda
(ii) Mollusca
(iii) Annelida
(iv) Coelenterata
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (ii) and (iv)
Answer: a

Question: Which among the following have scales?
(i) Amphibians
(ii) Pisces
(iii) Reptiles
(iv) Mammals
(a) (i) and (iii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (i) and (ii)
Answer: c

Question: Which among the following has specialised tissue for conduction of water?
(i) Thallophyta
(ii) Bryophyta
(iii) Pteridophyta
(iv) Gymnosperms
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (iii) and (iv)
(d) (i) and (iv)
Answer: c

Write true (T) or false (F)

Question: Whittaker proposed five kingdom classification.
Answer: True

Question: Monera is divided into Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.
Answer: True

Question: Starting from Class, Species comes before the Genus.
Answer: False

Question: Anabaena belongs to the kingdom Monera.
Answer: True

Question: Blue green algae belongs to the kingdom Protista.
Answer: False

Question: All prokaryotes are classified under Monera.
Answer: True

Question: Gymnosperms differ from Angiosperms in having covered seed.
Answer: False

Question: Non-flowering plants are called Cryptogamae.
Answer: True

Question: Bryophytes have conducting tissue.
Answer: False

Question: Funaria is a moss.
Answer: True

Question: Compound leaves are found in many ferns.
Answer: True

Question: Seeds contain embryo.
Answer: True