This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Environment > Forests – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Forests Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Wildlife week is observed in this month every year. A) January. B) July. C) June. D) October. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) October. 2. What type of harvest cutting is the most economical? A) Clear. B) Shelterwood. C) Selective. D) Coppice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clear. 3. Natural resources can be sorted into two categories. What are the two categories? A) Renewable and Non-Renewable. B) Biotic and A-biotic. C) Exhaustible and Inexhautible. D) Foreign and Refurbished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic and A-biotic. 4. Which of these is not true about forests? A) Provide home to animals. B) Help in causing rainfall. C) Prevent soil erosion. D) Purify air by absorbing oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purify air by absorbing oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. 5. Which of the following could be used to describe the benefits humans receive from forest resources? A) Aesthetics. B) Economic value. C) Environemental protection. D) Recreational opportunities. E) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of these. 6. What are natural resources? A) Resources that are made by soil erosion. B) These are the resources made by man and used by animal. C) Are resources that exist without any actions of humankind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are resources that exist without any actions of humankind. 7. The removal of soil by wind or water is known as A) Soil Conservation. B) Soil Protection. C) Soil Erosion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soil Erosion. 8. Which of the following poses the greatest human health threat from air pollution generated during prescribed, controlled burns? A) Methane. B) Lead. C) Carbon monoxide. D) Fine particulate matter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fine particulate matter. 9. R approach means A) Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. B) Reduce, Rethink and Resale. C) Reduce, Rework and Resale. D) Reduce, Rethink and Rework. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. 10. Fir, Pine and Spruce are the examples of ..... trees. A) Deciduous. B) Thorn. C) Coniferous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coniferous. 11. Which of the following in not a reason for deforestation? A) Fuel. B) Farm land. C) Settlements/ housing. D) Room for solar pannels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Room for solar pannels. 12. Which describes a temperate forest? A) Found near equator. B) Found in far north. C) Found across much of the lower 48 states. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Found across much of the lower 48 states. 13. U.S. law that protects biodiversity A) CITES. B) Convention on Biological Exploitation. C) Endangered Species Act. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endangered Species Act. 14. What percentage of total number of species discovered in the world are found in India? A) 3 %. B) 8%. C) 30%. D) 15%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8%. 15. Prescribed burns A) Are carefully controlled. B) Cannot be controlled. C) Cause fuel buildup. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are carefully controlled. 16. Approximately how many different types of products have ingredients in them from trees? A) 50, 000. B) 500. C) 5, 000. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50, 000. 17. Gangetic dolphin belongs to which of the following categories of fauna? A) Endangered. B) Rare. C) Vulnerable. D) Extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vulnerable. 18. Which two states have large percentage of reserved forests of its forest area? A) Orissa and Jharkhand. B) Jammu & Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh. C) Assam and Tripura. D) Rajasthan and Haryana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jammu & Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh. 19. Why are peat bogs important. A) They are an important carbon sink, containing more 'locked-away' carbon than the Earth's forests. B) They look good. C) The dark colour helps provide warmth for birds. D) They are an important nitrate sink, containing more 'locked-away' nitrates than the Earth's forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are an important carbon sink, containing more 'locked-away' carbon than the Earth's forests. 20. Who is the least responsible for deforestation? A) Farming. B) Logging. C) Commercial Agriculture. D) Full Wood Removal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Full Wood Removal. 21. Highest forest:Madhya Pradesh::The least forest ..... A) West Bengal. B) Haryana. C) Uttar Pradesh. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haryana. 22. Which of the following species was declared extinct in India long back in 1952? A) Black Buck. B) Leopard. C) Gangetic Dolphin. D) Asiatic Cheetah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asiatic Cheetah. 23. What is a resource that cannot be replaced after being used through natural or human processes. A) Renewable Resource. B) Nonrenewable Resource. C) Regenerative Resource. D) Conservative Resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonrenewable Resource. 24. Teak monoculture has damaged the natural forests in: A) Ganga Plain. B) South India. C) Brahmaputra Plain. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South India. 25. Which type of management is being continually monitored and adjusted A) Adaptive forest management. B) Ecosystem-based forest management. C) Maximum sustainable yield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adaptive forest management. 26. Which method of harvesting trees is the best for the environment A) Clear cutting. B) Seed-Tree. C) Shelterwood. D) Selection System. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Selection System. 27. How does streamside forestation affect water within a stream? A) Increases beneficial silt levels. B) Increases carbon dioxide levels. C) Decreases biodiversity of aquatic life. D) Regulates temperature and oxygen levels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regulates temperature and oxygen levels. 28. Which of the following is not a way to harvest timber A) Deforestation. B) Clear Cutting. C) Selection System. D) Shelterwood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deforestation. 29. The ..... method of timber harvesting produces a future forest that most closely resembles the original forest in terms of biodiversity. A) Seed-tree approach. B) Shelterwood approach. C) Selection system. D) Clear-cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Selection system. 30. Which of the following are benefits of the forest? A) Climate regulation. B) Soil stabilization. C) Healthy functions of ecosystems. D) All of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of above. 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