ecology forest vegetations & national parks in india section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Dachigam National Park is located 22 kilometers from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. It covers an area of 141 square kilometers.

Answer: (a)

Kaziranga National Park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of Assam form the natural habitat of rhinoceros in India. The sanctuary hosts two-thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses. Kaziranga is also home to the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world.

Answer: (a)

Kanchenjunga National Park is located in Sikkim. The park gets its name from the mountain Kanchenjunga which is 8,586 metres tall, the third-highest peak in the world. The park is known for animals like musk deer, snow leopard and Himalayan Tahr.

Answer: (b)

The Himalayan subtropical pine forests are a large subtropical coniferous forest eco-region covering portions of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. This huge pine forest stretches for 3000 km across the lower elevations of the great Himalaya range for almost its entire length including parts of Pakistan's Punjab Province in the west through Azad Kashmir, the northern Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan.

Answer: (b)

The Gulf of Mannar located in Tamil Nadu is one of South Asia’s largest biosphere reserves. It extends from Rameswaram Island in the North to Kanyakumari in the South of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It is spread over an area of 10,500 km².

The area of other biosphere reserves (in km²) is as follows:

1. Sundarbans: 9630;
2. Nilgiri: 5520;
3. Nandadevi: 5860.

Answer: (d)

In state of Jharkhand, the forests categorized as ‘Reserve forest’ prohibits all activities unless permitted.