CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -30% of the area of Coorg is covered with evergreen rainforests. The place receives rain for most part of the year, especially during the monsoon season. The Page 2 period from September to March is ideal for visiting Coorg.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coorg, or Kodagu, the smallest district of Karnataka, is home to evergreen rainforests, spices and coffee plantations. Evergreen rainforests cover thirty percent of this district.

Detailed explanation-3: -Coorg or Kodagu has four main types of vegetation. The Evergreen forests of the west and the Moist deciduous and Dry deciduous forests in the central and southern parts of the district. Isolated evergreen or shola forests are found nestled between the folds of the mountain slopes which are covered by grasslands.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tropical evergreen forests are found in regions with high temperatures and heavy rainfall. It is found on the western slopes of the Western Ghats, islands of Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar, Northeast India and parts of Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-5: –Tropical wet evergreen forests: these forests (group 1 as per Champion and Seth’s classification) occur in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar islands in the south and in the entire northeastern region including the sub-mountain division of West Bengal (4).