Practice Quiz set 3 - indian geography mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Which among the following trees is found at the highest elevation from the sea level?
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Q-2) Which one of the following has a protected mangrove region?
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Goa has a large area covered under protected mangrove region.
Q-3) Kaziranga National Park is situated in
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Kaziranga National Park is situated in Assam. It was declared World Heritage Site in 1985.
Q-4) Which one of the following states has the largest forest area to its total land area?
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According to 2011 Forest Survey of India. Mizoram has third highest total forest cover with 1,594,000 hectares and highest percentage area (90.68%) covered by forests, among the states of India.
Q-5) Kaziranga National Park is famous for
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Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India.
A World Heritage Site, the park hosts two-thirds of the world’s Great One-horned Rhinoceroses. Kaziranga boasts the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world and was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006.
The park is home to large breeding populations of elephants, wild water buffalo, and swamp deer.
Q-6) Recently Nilambur Teak has been granted Geographical Indication status. It has its origin in the state of—
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Nilambur Teak, which has been granted Geographical Indication Status has its origin in the State of Kerala.
Q-7) Consider the following statements- Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park of India.
- It was one of the nine tiger reserves created at the launch of the Project Tiger in 1973.
- Initially it was named as ‘Hailey National Park’.
Which of the statement given above are correct?
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Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger. It is located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand and was named after Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment. The park was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative.
Q-8) Mudumalai Sanctuary is famous for
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The Mudumalai National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, now also declared a Tiger Reserve, lies on the northwestern side of the Nilgiri Hills, in Nilgiri District, about 150 km north-west of Coimbatore city in the westernmost part of Tamil Nadu, on the interstate boundaries with Karnataka and Kerala states in South India.
The sanctuary is a haven for Bengal Tigers and Indian Leopards and other threatened species.
Q-9) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I
List II
A. Tropical forest
1. Sunderbans
B. Conifer forest
2. Himachal Pradesh
C. Mangroves
3. Rajasthan
D. Deciduous forest
4. Silent Valley
Codes: A B C D
| List I | List II |
| A. Tropical forest | 1. Sunderbans |
| B. Conifer forest | 2. Himachal Pradesh |
| C. Mangroves | 3. Rajasthan |
| D. Deciduous forest | 4. Silent Valley |
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Q-10) The famous ‘Gir’ forests are located in
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Gir Forest National Park or Sasan Gir is a forest and wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat. It is the sole home of the pure Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica) and is considered to be one of the most important protected areas in Asia due to its supported species.
The ecosystem of Gir, with its diverse flora and fauna, is protected as a result of the efforts of the government forest department, wildlife activists and NGOs.
The forest area of Gir and its lions were declared as "protected" in the early 1900s by the then Nawab of the princely state of Junagadh.