Natural Vegetation India Quiz 11 (20 MCQs)

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1. The nature of the winter rainfall in north western India is:

Correct Answer: D) Cyclonic.

2. In which year it was renamed as the Corbett National park?

Correct Answer: C) 1957.

3. What do moisture laden winds strike to cause rainfall?

Correct Answer: A) Mountain.

4. Which one of the following is not essentially a species of the Himalaya vegetation? [IAS 2008]

Correct Answer: B) Mahogany.

5. Amritsar and Shimla have the same latitude yet Shimla is cooler than Amritsar because it:

Correct Answer: C) Is at a higher elevation.

6. Which type of vegetation grows in the sandy soil of the desert?

Correct Answer: C) Cactus and thorny bushes.

7. Which of the following is not a species of tropical moist deciduous forests?

Correct Answer: A) Mahagony.

8. What are natural habitat of wildlife?

Correct Answer: A) Forests.

9. What important programmes can we have to improve greenery of our earth?

Correct Answer: C) Van Mahotsava.

10. Choose any 2 trees famous for their soft & white wood-

Correct Answer: C) Semal, Silver Fir.

11. The most dominant factor which affects the climate of India is

Correct Answer: B) Monsoon winds.

12. The retreating monsoon withdraws from the:

Correct Answer: D) North-west India to Bengal.

13. The formation of laterite soil is mainly due to:

Correct Answer: C) Leaching.

14. Which of the following functions performed by a forest help most in controlling drought?

Correct Answer: B) Forests bring rainfall in monsoon.

15. Climate of India is labelled as .....

Correct Answer: B) Equatorial climate.

16. Which type of vegetation has emergent layer in the forest?

Correct Answer: C) Tropical evergreen forest.

17. Littoral forests are:-

Correct Answer: D) Dense and Impenetrable.

18. The Sunderbans are ..... forests.

Correct Answer: D) Tidal.

19. Which of the given options is the rainfall regime of the Tropical moist deciduous forest?

Correct Answer: C) 100 cm to 200 cm.

20. Among the following regions of India, which one receives comparatively least amount of annual rainfall? [IAS 2009]

Correct Answer: C) North-eastern Rajasthan.