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Question 41. An area legally reserved for wild life in its natural surroundings is
  1.    Social Forests
  2.    National Park
  3.    Sanctuary
  4.    Biosphere Reserve
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Sanctuary
Answer: (c)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.
Question 42. There is a need to keep larger area under forests for
  1.    raising precipitation
  2.    ecological balance
  3.    protecting wild-life
  4.    absorption of carbon dioxide
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> ecological balance
Answer: (b)
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 woodland. It restores the ecological balance of all ecosystems and maintains biological diversity.
Question 43. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
  1.    Sandal wood - Kerala
  2.    Sundari - West Bengal
  3.    Deodar - Madhya Pradesh
  4.    Teak - Jammu and Kashmir
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Sundari - West Bengal
Answer: (b)
Question 44. Which one of the following states has the largest forest area to its total land area?
  1.    Sikkim
  2.    Jammu and Kashmir
  3.    Arunachal Pradesh
  4.    Mizoram
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Mizoram
Answer: (d)According to 2011 Forest Survey of India. Mizoram has third highest total forest cover with 1,594,000 hectares and highest percentage area (90.68%) covered by forests, among the states of India.
Question 45. Kaziranga National Park is situated in
  1.    Assam
  2.    Odisha
  3.    Gujarat
  4.    Karnataka
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Assam
Answer: (a)Kaziranga National Park is situated in Assam. It was declared World Heritage Site in 1985.
Question 46. Consider the following statements
  1. Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park of India.
  2. It was one of the nine tiger reserves created at the launch of the Project Tiger in 1973.
  3. Initially it was named as ‘Hailey National Park’.
Which of the statement given above are correct?
  1.    2 and 3
  2.    1 and 3
  3.    All of these
  4.    1 and 2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> All of these
Answer: (c)Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger. It is located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand and was named after Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment. The park was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative.
Question 47. ‘Van Mahotsav’ is associated with :
  1.    Increase in crop
  2.    Protection of plants
  3.    Planting trees
  4.    Cutting trees
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Protection of plants
Answer: (b)Van Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting festival in India, celebrated in the first week of July. This movement was initiated in the year 1950 by India's then Union Minister for Agriculture, Kulapati Dr.K M Munshi.
Question 48. Which of the following is not correctly matched with regard to Project Tiger Reserves?
  1.    Pench-Garhwal
  2.    Nagarjunasagar-Sri Sailam
  3.    Valmiki-Hazaribagh
  4.    Sariska-Alwar
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Pench-Garhwal
Answer: (a)
The Pench Tiger Reserve (Madhya Pradesh) is a 292.85 km2Project Tiger tiger reserve located in the Seoni District and Chhindwara District of southern Madhya Pradesh in central India. The Reserve gets its name from the Pench River that flows, north to south, 74 km through the reserve.
The Pench River bisects the Pench reserve into two nearly equal parts. The Reserve lies in the southern lower reaches of the Satpura Range of hills on the southern border of Madhya Pradesh.
Question 49. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I
List II
A. Tropical forest
1. Sunderbans
B. Conifer forest
2. Himachal Pradesh
C. Mangroves
3. Rajasthan
D. Deciduous forest
4. Silent Valley
Codes: A B C D
  1.    1 4 2 3
  2.    4 2 1 3
  3.    2 1 4 3
  4.    1 2 4 3
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 4 2 1 3
Answer: (b)
Question 50. Consider the following sanctuaries of India:

  1. Periyar

  2. Dachigam

  3. Sariska

  4. Kanha


Which one among the following is the correct sequence of locations of the above sanctuaries from south to north?
  1.    1, 4, 3, 2
  2.    3, 1, 4, 2
  3.    4, 1, 3, 2
  4.    1, 4, 2, 3
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 1, 4, 3, 2
Answer: (a)
Periyar (Kerala), Kanha (M.P.), Sariska (Rajasthan), Dachigam (J.K.) is the correct sequence from south to north.

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