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Questions Related to conservation of forest and wildlife

In 1900, the forest cover of the world comprised

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  1. 2500 million ha

  2. 7000 million ha

  3. 5500 million ha

  4. 1700 million ha

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In 1900, the forest cover of the world comprised about 7000 million hectors. In 2000, the forest cover of the world comprised only about 2370 million hector’s. It indicates that more than 50% of the tropical forests were converted into agricultural land.

Thus, the correct answer is '7000 million ha.'

Forest department has been able to maintain biodiversity by growing Pine, Teak and Eucalptus on large tracts.

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  1. True

  2. False

  3. Nither

  4. Either

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Correct Option: B

A natural resource is a substance/commodity that is a gift of nature which is very useful to mankind.

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  1. True

  2. False

  3. Nither

  4. Either

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Correct Option: A

'Social foresty' aims at

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  1. growing different types of plantations together

  2. growing one type of tree on the land

  3. management of forests by village bodies

  4. management of forests by cooperative societies.

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Correct Option: C

The wildlife resources are renewable resources.

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  1. True

  2. False

  3. Nither

  4. Either

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Correct Option: A

The most rapidly dwindling natural resource in the world is forests.

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  1. True

  2. False

  3. Nither

  4. Either

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Correct Option: A

Which of the following is correct to show the utility of forests?

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  1. Forests provide shelter to various kinds of species

  2. Forests help in water conservation

  3. Forests provide a wide variety of commercial product

  4. Forests do not help in the conservation of soil.

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Correct Option: A,B,C

The following are stakeholders of forests which one of these causes the maximum damage to forest?

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  1. People who live in or around the forest

  2. The industrials

  3. The wildlife and native enthusiasts

  4. The forest department of the government.

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Correct Option: C

World's most problematic aquatic weed is ________________.

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  1. Azolla

  2. Wolffia

  3. Elchhornia

  4. Trapa

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) is the world's most problematic aquatic weed, also called "Terror of Bengal". Because of its very high rate of growth, it can cover the surface of whole water bodies, choke them and cause a threat to other aquatic life forms.

Why you never see cattle or goats browsing on weed Calotropis?

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  1. The plant produces highly poisonous tannin

  2. The plant produces quinine which is bitter in taste

  3. The plant produces cardiac glycosides

  4. The plant bears prickles

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Prey species have evolved various defenses to lessen the impact depredation. For pant, herbivores are the predators plants have evolved an astonishing verity of morphological and chemical defense against herbivores. Calotropis produces highly see any cattle or goat browsing on this plant. A wide variety of chemical substance that we extract from plants on a commercial scale (nicotine, caffeine, quinine, strychnine, opium, etc.) are produced by them actually as defenses against grazers and browsers. So, the correct answer is 'The plant produces cardiac glycosides'.