ecology forest vegetations & national parks in india section 5 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

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: (c)

The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled.

The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation.

The Chipko movement though primarily a livelihood movement rather than a forest conservation movement went on to become a rallying point for many future environmentalists, environmental protests and movements the world over and created a precedent for non-violent protest.

Answer: (c)

The Forest area (% of land area) in India was last reported at 23.02 per cent in 2010, according to a World Bank report published in 2012.

Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.

Answer: (b)

Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The Sunderbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering parts of Bangladesh and India.

This region is densely covered by mangrove forests and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger. The Sundarbans is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests.

The mangrove-dominated Ganges Delta – the Sundarbans – is a complex ecosystem comprising one of the three largest single tracts of mangrove forests of the world. Situated mostly in Bangladesh, a small portion of it lies in India.