MCQs on Predators For NEET

Animals that catch and eat other animals for their meals are called predators. The animals they catch and eat are called prey. Predators can eat only meat, like lions and tigers, or both meat and plants, like sharks and snakes. Sometimes, even predators can become food for bigger animals in the food chain. For example, a snake might eat a mouse, but a hawk can eat that snake.

Predators MCQ for NEET

Ques 1. Predator’s suppression of prey declines with the increasing impact of prey on the next lower trophic level such as the impact of herbivores on plants – this is

1. Predation cycles

2. Top-down

3. Trophic cascades

4. Parasitism

Answer: Trophic cascades

Ques 2. Predation can be considered as

1. predator’s way of controlling prey’s energy level

2. nature’s way of controlling predators food chain

3. nature’s way of transferring energy to higher trophic levels

4. prey’s way to control the population

Answer: nature’s way of transferring energy to higher trophic levels

Ques 3. In an ecosystem, if you discard predators in a hypothetical scenario causing few species to become extinct, it indicates

1. commensalism

2. parasitism

3. interspecific competition

4. intraspecific competition

Answer: interspecific competition

Ques 4. Prey is small, predator is massive, typically filter feeders – whales and zooplankton and lichen, graph is found to be linear

1. Functional response

2. Type 1 functional response

3. Type 3 functional response

4. Type 2 functional response

Answer: Type 1 functional response

Ques 5. This can be a predator in a broad ecological context

1. crow

2. tiger

3. lion

4. Seed-eating sparrow

Answer: Seed-eating sparrow

Ques 6. Predators which consume almost everything are

1. generalist predators

2. predation

3. predators

4. specialist predators

Answer: generalist predators

Ques 7. The reason why exotic species starts dispersing fast and turns invasive is

1. because of successful establishment of the food web

2. because of lack of competition from other exotic plants

3. because of the lack of natural predator

4. it gets better nutrition there

Answer: because of the lack of natural predator

Ques 8. This cannot be performed by predators

1. allowing herbivores to be filled with energy fixed by autotrophs

2. controls the species of prey

3. make the ecosystem stable

4. conduit for the transfer of energy

Answer: allowing herbivores to be filled with energy fixed by autotrophs

Ques 9. The starfish Pisaster amongst the rocky intertidal communities of the American Pacific coast is a significant

1. Competitor

2. Parasite

3. Predator

4. Prey

Answer: Predator

Ques 10. In this interaction, the interacting species stay close together

1. Amensalism, Commensalism

2. Competition and Mutualism

3. Predation, Parasitism, Commensalism

4. Amensalism, Predation and Parasitism

Answer: Predation, Parasitism, Commensalism