GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -In India, evergreen forests are found in the western slopes of the Western Ghats in States such as Kerala and Karnataka. They are also found in hills of Jaintia and Khasi. Some of the trees found in Indian Tropical Forests are rosewood, mahagony and ebony.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tropical evergreen forests of India are found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Western Ghats, which fringe the Arabian Sea, the coastline of peninsular India, and the greater Assam region in the north-east. Small remnants of evergreen forest are found in Odisha state.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Western Ghats’ western slopes are wrapped in thick tropical evergreen forests. This is due to the fact that the western slope receives much more rainfall than the eastern slope. During the monsoon season, moisture-laden air travels eastward over the Western Ghats.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Western Ghats are home to four tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions – the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, North Western Ghats montane rain forests, South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, and South Western Ghats montane rain forests.