SOILS AND NATURAL VEGETATION
FOREST CONSERVATION IN INDIA
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Question
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Western Ghats
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Hilly areas of North-east
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Both of these
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none of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: –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).
Detailed explanation-3: -Temperate evergreen forests are found in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, in areas that generally receive between 300 and 900 mm of rain per year and with seasonal temperature extremes ranging from-40 to 20 °C.
Detailed explanation-4: -Therefore, five of the important trees found in tropical evergreen forests are rosewood, malabar kino, teak, indian laurel and bamboo.
Detailed explanation-5: -Detailed Solution. Evergreen forests are found on the eastern and western slopes of the Western Ghats in states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. They are also found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.