ecology forest vegetations & national parks in india section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Stepwise migration refers to a type of migration that occurs in a series of movements, for example, moving to a town larger than the home town, but not directly to one of the city regions.

It is an important subcomponent of the urban ward drift of people.

Answer: (d)

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.

Answer: (a)

The forest cover includes all lands which have a tree canopy density of more than ten per cent when projected vertically on the horizontal ground, with a minimum areal extent of one hectare. Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest area in the country. The Forest area of the state constitutes 31 per cent of the total area of the state.

The forest area in the state constitutes about 12.44 per cent of the total forest area of India.

Answer: (a)

In Uttarakhand, Oak - Rhododendron are characteristic plants of Temperate forest.

Answer: (d)

The Dudhwa National Park is a national park in the Terai of Uttar Pradesh, India, and covers an area of 490.3 km², with a buffer zone of 190 km². It is part of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

Kanha National Park, also known as Kanha Tiger Reserve, is a vast expanse of grassland and forest in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Tigers, jackals and wild pigs can be spotted in Kanha Meadows.

Indravati Tiger Reserves is a Tiger Reserve area in Chhattisgarh. Bandipur National Park, an 874-sq.-km forested reserve in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, is known for its small population of tigers.

Answer: (d)