Forests

Which of the following statement regarding forests is INCORRECT?

• They serve home to many animals.

• They prevent soil erosion.

• They help in increasing global warming.

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Forest develop at a place with average temperature greater than

• 20 degree Celsius

• 10 degree Celsius

• 50 degree Celsius

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Trees purify the air by absorbing

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

• Nitrogen

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Large scale cutting of trees is called

• Deforestation

• Afforestation

• None

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What could be a scientific solution to the problems of depletion of forest.

• Stop burning or cutting down biologically diverse forest and to allow nature to replenish them

• Do not support the logging / lumber industry

• Enact and enforce laws and regulations on cutting matured trees

• all of the above

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Which of the following trees are most common in boreal forests?

• Coniferous

• Deciduous broadleaf

• Broadleaf

• Deciduous

Clear-cutting is a timber harvesting method in which

• trees that provide shelter to seedlings are left uncut.

• only some mature trees in an area are cut.

• only immature trees in an area are cut.

• all of the trees in an area are cut.

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The cutting and burning of trees

• has no affect on the environment.

• releases carbon dioxide and contributes to climate change.

• is beneficial to ecosystems and animal habitats.

• reduces flooding and erosion.

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Most of the world's remaining forests are either boreal forest or

• tropical rain forest.

• temperate forest.

• tree plantations.

• chaparral.

Forests develop at places where annual rainfall is at least

• 200 cm

• 200 mm

• 300 mm

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