Natural Vegetation and Wildlife in India

This is the correct answer as natural vegetation refers to a plant community which has grown naturally without human aid and has been left undisturbed by humans for a long time. Thus, cultivated crops and fruit orchards are a part of vegetation but not natural vegetation.

This is the correct answer as both statements are correct.

This is the correct answer. The variation in duration of sunlight at different places is due to differences in latitude, altitude, season and duration of the day.

This is the correct answer as both options 1 and 2 are valid reasons for saying that forests are important for human beings.

This is the correct answer. Natural vegetation is the vegetation that has been left undisturbed by the humans for a long time. Additions in or replacement of natural vegetation of exotic species, crop cultivation and degradation by human occupancy can be said to be reasons behind the statement that 'the vegetation cover of India is no more natural in the real sense'.

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct.

This is the correct answer as Coromandel coast is a part of Eastern Ghats, which are lower than Western Ghats and also receive less rainfall. This area does not have tropical evergreen forests.

Bamboo grows in dry deciduous forests. This is the correct answer.

This is the correct answer as these are the most widespread forests of India and are also called the monsoon forests.

This is an incorrect statement. The trees in tropical evergreen forests reach up to the height of 60 metres or even above. Thus, this is the correct answer choice.

This is the correct answer as all these animals are found in thorn forests.

This is the correct answer as the Ganga Brahmaputra delta is also called Sundarbans as this delta has sundari trees.

This is the correct answer as at higher altitudes, mosses and lichens form part of tundra vegetation.

This is the correct answer. The Gir Forest is the last remaining habitat of the Asiatic lion.

This is the correct answer as the Manas Bioreserve has not been included in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

This is paired incorrectly as Kachnar is used to cure asthma and ulcers.