1. Name the seed from which we get oil for chocolates?
a) Sal Seeds
b) Coconut Oil
c) Tannin
d) Tendu seeds
Answer. a) Sal Seeds
2. Which of the following is used to convert skins and hides into leather?
a) Sal Seeds
b) Coconut Oil
c) Tannin
d) Tendu seeds
Answer. c) Tannin
3. The disappearance of forests is referred to as
a) Forest Conservation
b) Forest Fire
c) Jhum Cultivation
d) deforestation
Answer. d) deforestation
4. How much of India's landmass was under cultivation in 1600?
a) Half
b) one-third
c) one-fourth
d) one-sixth
Answer. d) one-sixth
In 1600, approximately one-sixth of India’s landmass was under cultivation.
5. How much of India's landmass was under cultivation at Present?
a) 30 %
b) 40 %
c) 50 %
d) 60 %
Answer. d) 60 %
6. the Lakota tribe who lived in?
a) Africa
b) North America
c) South America
d) Central Asia
Answer. b) North America
7. Wooden planks laid across railway tracks; they hold the tracks in the position known as?
a) Wooden Base
b) Sleepers
c) Wooden Tracks
d) Tracks
Answer. b) Sleepers;
Each mile of railway track required between 1,760 and 2,000 sleepers.
8. Who was the first Inspector General of Forests in India?
a) Dietrich Brandis
b) Warren Hasting
c) Thomas Munro
d) Lord Hasting
Answer. a) Dietrich Brandis
British decided to invite a German expert, Dietrich Brandis, for advice and made him the first Inspector
General of Forests in India.
Brandis set up the Indian Forest Service in 1864 and helped formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865. The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun in 1906.
9. Where was the first Imperial Forest School inaugurated in British India?
a) Cuttack
b) Dehra Dun
c) Chennai
d) Pune
Answer. b) Dehra Dun;
Imperial Forest School of Dehra Dun was founded in 1878 as "Forest School of Dehradun", later in 1906 it was renamed as " The Imperial Forest Research Institute".
10. When was the first Forest Act passed?
a) 1864
b) 1865
c) 1878
d) 1927
Answer. b) 1865
After the Forest Act was enacted in 1865, it was amended twice, once in 1878 and then in 1927
11. Who introduced scientific forestry in India?
a) Dietrich Brandis
b) Warren Hasting
c) Thomas Munro
d) Lord Hasting
Answer. a) Dietrich Brandis;
Scientific forestry – A system of cutting trees controlled by the forest department, in which old trees are cut and new ones planted. It was introduced by a) Dietrich Brandis.
12. Which of the following Forests Act divided forests into three categories: reserved, protected, and village forests?
a) Forests Act 1864
b) Forests Act 1865
c) Forests Act 1878
d) Forests Act 1927
Answer. c) Forests Act 1878 Act divided forests into three categories: reserved, protected, and village forests.
13. The best Forests in British India were called?
a) reserved forest
b) protected forest
c) village forests
d) Tropical Rainforest
Answer. a) reserved forest;
The best forests were called ‘reserved forests’. Villagers could not take anything from these forests, even for their own use. For house building or fuel, they could take wood from protected or village forests.
14. Which creeper is used to make ropes?
a) siadi (Bauhinia vahlii)
b) semur (silk-cotton)
c) the fruit of the mahua tree
d) Tendu leaves
Answer. a) siadi (Bauhinia vahlii) creeper is used to make ropes.
15. thorny bark of which of the following trees is used to grate vegetables?
a) siadi (Bauhinia vahlii)
b) semur (silk-cotton)
c) the fruit of the mahua tree
d) Tendu leaves
Answer. b) semur (silk-cotton)
16. Match the following.
List I ( shifting cultivation or swidden agriculture)
A. Lading
B. Milpa
C. Chitemene or Tavy
D. Chena
List II ( Region)
1. Southeast Asia
2. Central America
3. Africa
4. Sri Lanka
Codes:
A B C D
a) 1 2 3 4
b) 2 1 4 3
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 4 3 1 2
Answer. a) 1 2 3 4
17. " Devsari, dand or man" are
a) the name of shifting cultivation
b) a small fee that needs to be paid to collect forest produce
c) Cluster of village
d) The name of Forest Camp
Answer. b) a small fee that needs to be paid to collect forest produce;
If people from a village want to take some wood from the forests of another village, they pay a small fee called devsari, and, or man in exchange.
18." Dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, podu, khandad and kumri" are
a) the name of shifting cultivation
b) sacred groves
c) Cluster of village
d) The name of Forest Camp
Answer. a) the name of shifting cultivation;
In India, dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, jhum, podu, khandad and kumri
are some of the local terms for swidden agriculture
19. " Blandongdiensten system" was famous in which region?
a) Central India
b) Java, Indonesia
c) Africa
d) South America
Answer. b) Java, Indonesia
The Dutch first imposed rents on land being cultivated in the forest in Java, Indonesia and then exempted some villages from these rents if they worked collectively to provide free labor and buffaloes for cutting and transporting timber. This was known as the "blandongdiensten system".
20. Arrange the following Island from West to East.
1. Sumatra
2. Java
3. Bali
4. Lombok
Codes:
a) 1,2,3,4
b) 2,1,4,3
c) 1,3,2,4
d) 4,3,2,1
Answer. a) 1,2,3,4
21. "sarnas, devarakudu, kan, and rai" are the name of
a) the name of shifting cultivation
b) sacred groves
c) Cluster of village
d) The name of Forest Camp
Answer. b) sacred groves
In India, from Mizoram to Kerala, dense forests have survived only because villages protected them in sacred groves known as sarnas, devarakudu, kan, rai, etc
22.
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