Natural Vegetation Ch (5) Practice Quiz in English Part 2 || Class 11 Geography Book -2 Practice Quizzes in English

Explanation: About 70 per cent of this comprises areas under paddy cultivation.  

Explanation: Some of the important reasons of the declining of wildlife are as follows: Industrial and technological advancement brought about a rapid increase in the exploitation of forest resources, more and more lands were cleared for agriculture, human settlement, roads, mining, reservoirs, etc., pressure on forests mounted due to lopping for fodder and fuelwood and removal of small timber by the local people, grazing by domestic cattle caused an adverse effect on wildlife and its habitat, hunting was taken up as a sport by the elite and hundreds of wild animals were killed in a single hunt and now commercial poaching is rampant, incidence of forest fire.

Explanation: In 1972, a comprehensive Wildlife Act was enacted, which provides the main legal framework for conservation and protection of wildlife in India.

Explanation: Agro-forestry is the raising of trees and agriculture crops on the same land inclusive of the waste patches.

Explanation: Farm forestry is a term applied to the process under which farmers grow trees for commercial and non-commercial purposes on their farm lands.

Explanation: The southern mountain forests include the forests found in three distinct areas of Peninsular India viz; the Western Ghats, the Vindhyas and the Nilgiris.  

Explanation: They are highly developed in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Sunderbans of West Bengal. Other areas of significance are the Mahanadi, the Godavari and the Krishna deltas.  

Explanation: The country’s wetlands have been grouped into eight categories, viz.  

Explanation: Two sites Chilika Lake (Odisha) and Keoladeo National Park (Bharatpur) are protected as water-fowl habitats under the Convention of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention).  

Explanation: The temperate forests are called Sholas in the Nilgiris, Anaimalai and Palani hills.  

Explanation: Community forestry programme aims at providing benefits to the community as a whole.

Explanation: The forest policy aimed at: (i) bringing 33 per cent of the geographical areas under forest cover;  

Explanation: According to the new forest policy, the Government will emphasise sustainable forest management in order to conserve and expand forest reserve on the one hand, and to meet the needs of local people on the other.  

Explanation: Social forestry means the management and protection of forests and afforestation on barren lands with the purpose of helping in the environmental, social and rural development.  

Explanation: It is estimated that about 4-5 per cent of all known plant and animal species on the earth are found in India.

Explanation: In India, the mangrove forests spread over 6,740 sq. km which is 7 per cent of the world’s mangrove forests.  

Explanation: The forest policy aimed at: conserving the natural heritage of the country, its biological diversity and genetic pool; increasing the forest cover through social forestry and afforestation on degraded land; creating of a massive peoples movement involving women to encourage planting of trees, stop felling of trees and thus, reduce pressure on the existing forest.  

Explanation: The National Commission on Agriculture (1976) has classified social forestry into three categories. These are Urban forestry, Rural forestry and Farm forestry.  

Explanation: The southern slopes of the Himalayas carry a thicker vegetation cover because of relatively higher precipitation than the drier north-facing slopes.  

Explanation: Mangroves grow along the coasts in the salt marshes, tidal creeks, mud flats and estuaries.