Tag: forests and life

Questions Related to forests and life

Which of the following is called as dynamic living entity?

  1. Oceans

  2. Villages

  3. Cities

  4. Forests


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • Forests are areas of biodiversity hot spots, as we know. They are full of plants, trees, animals and birds. 
  • Even the dead bodies of plants and animals are decayed by saprophytes, supporting large forms of life. 
  • In this process, they provide the soil with nutrients that help the seeds to grow properly and support new forms of life. So we can say that forests are dynamic living entities.
So, option D, 'Forests' is the correct answer.

Plantation produces around ___________ percentage of industrial woods.

  1. twenty

  2. thirty

  3. forty

  4. fifty


Correct Option: C

When we destroy a forest we destroy 

  1. An ecosystem

  2. The plant life

  3. Population of wild life

  4. Food and shelter of wild animals


Correct Option: A

Which forest is a source of lumber and paper pulp?

  1. Tropical rain forest

  2. Monsoon

  3. Desert

  4. Boreal Forest


Correct Option: D

The area to which a species is biologically adapted to live is known as __________

  1. Niche

  2. Habitat

  3. Succession

  4. Community


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is the branchy part of a tree?

  1. Stem tip

  2. Apical stem

  3. Crown

  4. Axillary stem


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Crown of a tree is basically the aerial part of trees that contains branches, leaves and stems. Thus, it constitutes the branchy part of trees.

Stem tip refers to only the tip of the stem.
Apical stem and axillary stems are also stem types.
So, crown is the part of tree that has various branches over it.

Which of the following provides nutrients to the seedling to grow in forest ?

  1. Grubs

  2. Beetles

  3. Bacteria

  4. Decaying animals dung


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The animals living in the forests excrete the nitrogenous wastes which is acted upon by the microbes. The complex materials in the dung is converted into simpler form of nutrients. These nutrients are taken up by the plants and trees in the forests. The new seedling utilises the nutrients from this decayed dung. 

Thus, the correct answer is option D. 

The most rapidly depleting resource in the world is 

  1. Water

  2. Forest

  3. Wind

  4. Sunlight


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Forest is depleting day by day due to the rapid urbanisation. As urbanising is increasing rapidly thus forest is most rapidly depleting natural resource. 

Forests decrease the speed of water dispersion by the help of their:

  1. foliage

  2. craggy bark

  3. litter

  4. All the above


Correct Option: D

Forest is known as habitat because

  1. It provides food and shelter to animals

  2. It has specific set of plants and animals

  3. It is a natural resource

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: D