ecology forest vegetations & national parks in india section 1 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

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

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: (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: (c)

Bhitarkanika Mangroves are in the state of Odisha.

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.