Solution: (b)
The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The Sundarbans Mangroves eco-region on the coast forms the seaward fringe of the delta and is the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem, with 20,400 square kilometers. The dominant mangrove species Heritiera fomes is locally known as sundri or sundari. Mangrove forests are not home to a great variety of plants.
Manas Sanctuary in Assam is known for
(a) elephants
(b) bears
(c) tigers
(d) wild ass
Solution: (a)
Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is a Wildlife Sanctuary, UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Project Tiger Reserve, an Elephant Reserve and a Biosphere Reserve in Assam, India. Located in the Himalayan foothills, it is contiguous with the Royal Manas National Park in Bhutan. The park is known for its rare and endangered endemic wildlife such as the Assam Roofed Turtle, Hispid Hare, Golden Langur and Pygmy Hog. Manas is famous for its population of the Wild water buffalo.
The common tree species in Nilgiri Hills is
(a) Sal
(b) Pine
(c) Eucalyptus
(d) Teak
Solution: (b)
Nilgiri mountains are a range of mountains with at least 24 peaks above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), in the westernmost part of Tamil Nadu state at the junction of Karnataka and Kerala states in Southern India. They are part of the larger Western Ghats mountain chain making up the southwestern edge of the Deccan Plateau. Eucalyptus is common. Much of the Nilgiris natural Montane grasslands and shrublands interspersed with sholas has been much disturbed or destroyed by extensive tea plantations, easy motor vehicle access and extensive commercial planting and harvesting of non-native eucalyptus and wattle plantations.
Which of the following is correctly matched? Wildlife Sanctuary State
(a) Bandipur — Tamil Nadu
(b) Manas — Uttar Pradesh
(c) Ranthambhore — Rajasthan
(d) Simlipal — Bihar
Solution: (c)
Bandipur: Karnataka; Manas: Assam; Ranthambhore: Sawai Madhopur district of southeastern Rajasthan; and Simlipal: in the Mayurbhanj district in Odisha.
Which one of the following regions of India is associated with pine forests?
(a) Rohikhand
(b) Bundelkhand
(c) Jharkhand
(d) Uttarakhand
Solution: (d)
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.
The wild ass is found in
(a) Kachchh
(b) Assam
(c) Jammu and Kashmir
(d) Tamil Nadu
Solution: (a)
Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary also known as the Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Little Rann of Kutch in the Gujarat state of India. It is the largest wildlife sanctuary in India. It was established in 1972 and came under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1973.
There is a need to keep the larger areas under forests for
(a) absorption of carbon dioxide
(b) protecting wildlife
(c) raising precipitation
(d) ecological balance
Solution: (d)
Ecological balance has been defined by various online dictionaries as “a state of dynamic equilibrium within a community of organisms in which genetic, species and ecosystem diversity remain relatively stable, subject to gradual changes through natural succession.” Afforestation is the transformation of wasteland into the forest or the woodland. It restores ecological balance of all ecosystems and maintains biological diversity.
Which are the States in which the Agasthyamala biosphere is spread?
(a) Andhra Pradesh – Karnataka
(b) Tamil Nadu – Karnataka
(c) Maharashtra–Madhya Pradesh
(d) Kerala – Tamil Nadu
Solution: (d)
The Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve (ABR) was established in 2001 and includes 3,500.36 square km of which 1828 km² is in Kerala and 1672.36 km² is in Tamil Nadu. It straddles the border of Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram Districts in Kerala and Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari Districts in Tamil Nadu, South India at the southern end of the Western Ghats.
In which state is the Kanger Ghati National Park?
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Bihar
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Chhatisgarh
Solution: (d)
The Kanger Ghati National Park, near Jagdalpur, in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh is one of the most beautiful and densest National Park, well known for its Biodiversity with picturesque landscape, magnificent waterfalls, and very famous subterranean geo morphologic limestone caves.
An area legally reserved for wildlife in its natural surroundings is
(a) Biosphere Reserve
(b) Sanctuary
(c) Social Forests
(d) National Park
Solution: (b)
A wildlife sanctuary is an protected area that is reserved for the conservation only of wildlife, animals and plant species. Human activities like harvesting of timber, collection of minor forest products are allowed.
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