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The document discusses various types of forests in India, including tropical evergreen and tropical moist deciduous forests, highlighting their climatic conditions, economic importance, and types of trees found. It also explores the potential for manufacturing plant-based products using resources from tropical desert forests and advocates for agro-forestry over traditional forestry for land conservation and improved crop yield. Overall, it emphasizes the ecological and economic significance of different forest types and their resources.

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Thinking skill Question Bank Chapter 7 Water Resources

The document discusses various types of forests in India, including tropical evergreen and tropical moist deciduous forests, highlighting their climatic conditions, economic importance, and types of trees found. It also explores the potential for manufacturing plant-based products using resources from tropical desert forests and advocates for agro-forestry over traditional forestry for land conservation and improved crop yield. Overall, it emphasizes the ecological and economic significance of different forest types and their resources.

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Thinking Skills

Question 1

You went for a study tour to Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats. On reaching there, you found a
luxuriant vegetation and evergreen trees. What accounts for such a growth of vegetation? What type
of forests did you find in the area? Name any three types of trees found there and their economic
importance.

Answer

Recently I went to Mahabaleshwar for a study tour and found luxuriant vegetation and evergreen
trees. My teacher explained that such vegetation and evergreen trees are found in the areas where
the annual rainfall is more than 200 cm with a short dry season, average annual temperature is
between 25°C and 27°C and average annual humidity exceeds 77 percent.

I found tropical evergreen forests there. The main variety of trees found in these forests include
rosewood, ebony and mahogany. Rosewood is used for making furniture, floor board wagon parts,
etc. It is used as decorative wood for carving and for making ornamental ply-boards. Ebony is used
for ornamental carving and for decoration. It is used for inlaying, for making musical instruments,
sports goods, piano keys and caskets. Thus, the timber produced by evergreen trees is of high
economic value.

Question 2

You live in an area which is surrounded by the commercially most exploited forests. Which forests are
these and why are they most exploited forests in India? Besides your area, where are these forests
found? State the climatic conditions required for such forests to flourish.

Answer

Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests are found in the area where I reside. These are commercially the
most exploited forests because they provide invaluable timber and various other products. They are
less dense which makes transport easier and economical. Sandalwood found in these forests is in
great demand in India and abroad.

Besides my area, these forests occur in the north eastern part of the Peninsula, along the foothills of
the Himalayas and eastern slopes of the Western Ghats. They occupy a sizeable area in Uttar
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests are found in areas with moderate or low annual rainfall of 100 cm
to 200 cm and the mean annual temperature of 24°C and 27°C and humidity percentage of 50 to 80.

Question 3

Imagine that you want to start a factory to manufacture plant based medicines, beauty products and
toothpastes. Which forest area would you choose in the vicinity of which you can start your factory
and why?

Answer

I would choose to start my factory in the vicinity of tropical desert forest because neem, babool and
date palm trees are found in these forests.
Babool bark and gum and Neem bark and roots have medicinal properties. It is effective in treating
diabetes, allergies, ulcers and several other diseases. Hence, it can be used for making plant-based
medicines. Date palm is eaten raw and also used as an astringent, as a decoction syrup or paste for
sore throat, cold, fever, etc. Neem oil, leaves and neem extracts are used to manufacture health and
beauty products. Neem is also used as an insecticide. Thus, beauty products and toothpastes can
also be manufactured by using these trees.

Question 4

If given a choice between agro-forestry and traditional forestry, which one will you choose? Why?

Answer

I would choose agro-forestry over traditional forestry because it aims to provide conservation of the
land and its improvement in order to achieve a combined produce of forest and agricultural crops.

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