Multiple choice

Arrange the forest-types from foothill to top in Himalayan ranges:

  1. Wet temperate type
  2. Deciduous forests
  3. Pine forests
  4. Alpine forests

  1. 4 - 2 - 1 - 3

  2. 4 - 3 - 1 - 2

  3. 3 - 4 - 1 - 2

  4. 2 - 1 - 3 - 4
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Explanation

The Himalayan ranges show a succession of vegetation from the tropical to the tundra, which change in with the altitude.

Deciduous forests are found in the foothills of the Himalayas.

It is succeeded by the wet temperate type of forests between an altitude of 1,000 - 2,000 m.
Between 1,500 - 1,750 m, pine forests are also well-developed in this zone, with Chir Pine as a very useful commercial tree. Deodar, a highly valued endemic species grows mainly in the western part of the Himalayan range.
In the higher reaches there is a transition to Alpine forests and pastures. Silver firs, junipers, pines, birch and rhododendrons, etc. occur between 3,000 - 4,000 m.
At higher altitudes, mosses and lichens form part of the tundra vegetation.
Hence the correct sequence from foothills to the top is 2-1-3-4 in the given question.

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