The Terai grasslands and the swamp deer of Dudhwa are features of which biogeographic zone?
- A.Gangetic Plain
- B.Himalaya
- C.Semi-Arid
- D.North-East India
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Gangetic Plain. The Gangetic Plain zone covers the upper and lower Ganga plains including the Terai belt along the foot of the Himalaya, and Dudhwa in Uttar Pradesh protects its swamp deer or barasingha along with tiger and, after reintroduction, rhinoceros. Option B is wrong because the Himalaya zone begins above the Terai, in the hills, and its typical animals are the musk deer and red panda. Option C is wrong because the Semi-Arid zone lies to the west and south-west of the Ganga plains and carries thorn forest, not wet grassland. Option D is wrong because the North-East India zone is the Brahmaputra valley and the hills around it, where the comparable grasslands are those of Kaziranga and Manas. The Gangetic Plain is also the most intensively cultivated zone, so very little natural vegetation survives in it.
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Practice Questions
View allThe division of India into ten biogeographic zones was given by which pair of scientists?
- A.Champion and Seth
- B.Rodgers and Panwar
- C.Hooker and Thomson
- D.Salim Ali and Ripley
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W. A. Rodgers and H. S. Panwar of the Wildlife Institute of India proposed the ten-zone biogeographic classification in 1988 while planning a representative wildlife protected area network for the country, and the ten zones with their biotic provinces are still the official framework.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest biogeographic zone of India by area?
- A.Semi-Arid zone
- B.Deccan Peninsula
- C.Gangetic Plain
- D.Himalaya
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The Deccan Peninsula zone covers about forty-two per cent of the country, roughly two-fifths, stretching over the central highlands, Chota Nagpur, the eastern highlands and the Deccan plateau, and it carries most of India sal and teak forests and tiger reserves.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following biosphere reserves of India is situated in Meghalaya?
- A.Panna
- B.Simlipal
- C.Manas
- D.Nokrek
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Nokrek lies in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya and represents the North-East India biogeographic zone in the network of biosphere reserves; it is known for the wild citrus relative called the Indian wild orange and for the hoolock gibbon.
Read the full explanation →The cold desert of Ladakh and Lahaul-Spiti belongs to which biogeographic zone of India?
- A.Himalaya
- B.Trans-Himalaya
- C.Indian Desert
- D.Semi-Arid
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The Trans-Himalaya is the belt lying beyond the Great Himalaya in Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti and northern Sikkim; it is a cold desert because it stands in the rain shadow of the high ranges, and it is the one Indian zone whose fauna, such as the kiang, wild yak and black-necked crane…
Read the full explanation →Where in India are the Sundari trees that provide durable and hard timber found?
- A.Tropical Deciduous Forests
- B.Mangrove Forests
- C.Montane Forests
- D.Tropical Evergreen Forests
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The sundari is a mangrove tree of the tidal deltaic forests of the Coasts biogeographic zone, and the Sundarbans of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta take their name from it; its wood is hard and durable, and like other mangroves it has salt tolerant roots and breathing roots in the waterlogged mud.
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