Tag: forests and their conservation
Questions Related to forests and their conservation
The Tropical Deciduous forest is also known as _______.
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Monsoon forest
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Tidal forest.
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Temperate forest
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Tundra forest.
The tropical deciduous forests are also called monsoon forest because the trees in these forests shed their leaves during dry season and re-grow during monsoon.
The most dominant species of trees found in the tropical deciduous forests is ________.
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Sal
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Rosewood
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Teak
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Deodar
Tropical Deciduous forest receives rainfall between ________.
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70cm to 100cm.
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100cm to 200cm.
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60cm to 100cm
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50cm.
The most dominant species of the tropical deciduous forest is _________.
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Bamboos.
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Teak
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Shisham
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Sandalwood.
Tropical deciduous forests are also known as "Monsoon" forests. These forests are found in the regions which receive the annual rainfall between 200 cm and 70 cm.
Montane forests are found in ________.
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Ganga-Brahmaputra delta.
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North-east India.
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Eastern slope of western ghats.
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Eastern ghats.
North-East India,
The percentage of mangrove forest is _________.
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less than 1%
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less than 3%
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less than 2%
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less than 4%
Recent data available from State of Forest Report 2011 of the Forest Survey of India, Dehra Dun shows that mangrove cover in the country is 4,662.56 sq.km, which is 0.14 percent of the country's total geographical area.
Cinchona trees are found in the _______.
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Equatorial climate
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Mediterranean climate
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Monsoon climate
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Taiga climate
My stems are succulent, my leaves are mostly thick. In which category of the following vegetation type I am largely found?
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Tropical deciduous forest
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Montane forest
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Tropical thorn forest and scrubs
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Mangrove forest
Tropical thorn forests and scrubs are found in the regions with less than 70cm of rainfall. The natural vegetation consists of thorny trees and bushes. Trees are scattered and have long roots penetrating deep into the soil to get moisture. The stems are succulent to conserve water. Leaves are mostly thick and small to minimize evaporation.
Natural vegetation of a region depends mainly on climate and hence there are distinctive areas of different types of vegetation. The governing factors in general are temperature and precipitation. Accordingly, pine forests in India are found in _______.
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The Sunderbans
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The Thar desert
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The Himalayas
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The Ganga plain
Cinchona trees are found in the areas of rainfall more than ______.
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100 cm
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20 cm
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170 cm
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less than 50 cm
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None of these