ecology forest vegetations & national parks in india section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India. It is situated in Nainital district of Uttarakhand. The park acts as a protected area for the endangered Bengal tiger of India.

Answer: (d)

Nilgiri is the first Biosphere Reserve formed in 1986.

Answer: (c)

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of ‘wild nature’ for posterity and as a symbol of national pride.

The biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

Answer: (a)

The main areas of tropical forest are found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; the Western Ghats, which fringe the Arabian Sea coastline of peninsular India; and the greater Assam region in the northeast along the Eastern Himalayas.

Small remnants of rain forest are found in Orissa state. Tropical rainforests are located in a band around the equator (Zero degrees latitude) in the area between the Tropic of Cancer (23.5° North latitude) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5° South latitude).

This 3,000 miles (4800 kilometres) wide band is known as the ‘tropics’.

Answer: (d)

Teak and Sal are products of tropical dry deciduous forests. The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest biome, also known as tropical dry forest, is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes.

Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round and may receive several hundred centimetres of rain per year, they have long dry seasons which last several months and vary with geographic location.

These seasonal droughts have a great impact on all living things in the forest.

Answer: (b)

82°30’ E has been taken as the standard meridian in India.