Test: Natural Vegetation and Wildlife (Term II) - Class 9 MCQ

• Growing demand for cultivated land to meet the food grain requirements. This has been caused by the growing population of the country.

• Industrial development and mining that have resulted in forests being cleared away to enable access to resources.

• Urbanisation caused by the economic development and shift in economic activities of people. It has led to acquisition of land for the purpose of development.

• The landforms, cutting down of trees,increase in temperature are some factors that may have brought about changes.

• The mangrove tidal forests are found in the areas of coasts influenced by tides. Mud and silt get accumulated on such coasts. Dense mangroves are the common varieties with roots of the plants submerged under water.

• The deltas of the Ganga, the Mahanadi, the Krishana, the Godavari and the Kaveri are covered by such vegetation.

• The deltas of the Ganga, the Mahanadi, the Krishana, the Godavari and the Kaveri are covered by such vegetation.

• In the Ganga Brahmaputra delta, sundari trees are found, which provide durable hard timber.

Mangroves are a group of trees and shrubs that live in the coastal intertidal zone. Mangrove forest in Loxahatchee, Florida. There are about 80 different species of mangrove trees. All of these trees grow in areas with low-oxygen soil, where slow-moving waters allow fine sediments to accumulate.