Tag: forests and their conservation
Questions Related to forests and their conservation
Which one of the following states is famous for sandal wood ?
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Andhra Pradesh
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Kerala
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Karnataka
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Tamil Nadu
Karnataka,
Railway coaches are made from _________.
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Shisham
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Deodar
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Teak
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Pine
- Deodar gives
yellowish brown wood. These trees are usually found in Himalayas, Punjab and
Uttar Pradesh. It is the most important timber tree providing very soft wood.
- It is used for making cheap
furniture, railway carriages, railway sleepers, packing boxes, etc.
The dominant vegetation type of India is ________.
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Tropical deciduous type
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Equatorial type
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Mangrove forest
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Xerophytic vegetation
The indian deciduous forests are the most abundantly found among all the different types of forests in india . The indian deciduous are found in a range of landscape from the plains to the hills .
Mangrove forests grow in ________.
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Saline water
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River water
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Deserts
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Mountains
- Mangrove forests comprise of
small shrubs or trees that grow in coastal saline or brackish waters. These
shrubs or trees can withstand high salinity conditions.
- Mangrove forests of Sunderbans are largest mangrove forests of the world. Sundarbans are located in Ganga-Brahmaputra
delta of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Thorny bushes are found in __________________.
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Hot and humid tropical climate
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Hot and dry desertic climate
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Cold polar climate
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None of these
Thorny bushes are found in dry and hot subtropical areas with seasonal rainfall as low as 500 millimeters.The rainfall is very low and therefore these areas are usually deserts. The bushes shed their leaves seasonally to avoid loss of water.
The forest type occurring in lower regions near the equator and tropics is ______.
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Softwood coniferous forest
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Temperate deciduous forest
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Tropical evergreen forest
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Alpine forest
- Tropical evergreen forests are the
forests consisting of evergreen trees with green foliage throughout year. These
are tropical forests.
- They constitute 7% of earth’s dry
land area and 2% of total surface. Such forest give shelter to 50% of world’s
species.
What is the other name of tropical deciduous forests?
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Monsoon Forests
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Temperate deciduous forests
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Tropical rainforests
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None of these
What is the other name of tropical evergreen forests?
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Temperate rainforests
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Deciduous
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Tropical rainforests
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None of these
Tropical evergreen forests are closed canopy forests growing within 28 degrees north or south of the equator. Since they receive more than 200 cm rainfall per year, therefore they are also known as rain-forests
Anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, is found in _____.
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Lowland forests
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Tropical rainforest
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Coniferous forests
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None of these
In tropical evergreen forest, one of the common animals is.
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Monkey
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Girraffe
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Camel
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Donkey
The monkeys tend to live in forest regions where they have lots of trees around them. Other than tropical evergreen forests,they are also abundant in mangrove forests,Savannahs and mountain regions