Forestry MCQs

Option A: Manner of formation of the stand

Option B: Quality of soil

Option C: Soil moisture

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The forest easily be managed (rotation period is same soil felling can be carried out at the same time

Option B: In pure forest less skill of forester is required than in mixed forest

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: Utilization of site properly

Option B: Wind damages

Option C: Snow damages

Option D: Insect damages

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The relative closeness of trees is called density

Option B: To closeness of crowns boles and roots

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: To temperature

Option B: To conditions favourability

Option C: To destruction

Option D: To extreme conditions favourability

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Even aged stand

Option B: Un-even aged stand (selection forest)

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: To bole length

Option B: To growth rings

Option C: To shade

Option D: To number of trees

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Pure stand

Option B: Mixed stand

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Many natural or semi-natural ecosystems

Option B: Some of which may be high biological diversity, are of considerable benefit to man

Option C: To role of forests in watershed regulation and stabilization of soils in erosion-prone areas

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: In-situ conservation

Option B: Ex-situ conservation

Option C: Why conserve biological diversity

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Food

Option B: Pharmaceuticals

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Genetic diversity

Option B: Species diversity

Option C: Ecosystem diversity

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Over hunting is perhaps the most obvious direct cause of extinction in animals, as it has affected several large and well-known species

Option B: Genetic diversity as represented by genetic differences between discrete populations with wild species, is liable to reduction as result of the same factors affecting species

Option C: A major, though at present largely unpredictable, change in natural environments is likely to occur within the next century as a result of large-scale changes in global climate and weather patterns

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Dioscuri

Option B: Taxus

Option C: Rauvolfia

Option D: Papaver

Correct Answer: Rauvolfia ✔

Option A: 834

Option B: 483

Option C: 533

Option D: 384

Correct Answer: 384 ✔

Option A: A contraction of biological diversity.

Option B: The range of variation or differences among

Option C: Some set of entities; biological diversity thus refers to variety within the living world

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Ecads

Option B: Ecotypes

Option C: Populations

Option D: Communities

Correct Answer: Ecotypes ✔

Option A: Fishes

Option B: Crabs

Option C: Birds

Option D: Mammals

Correct Answer: Fishes ✔

Option A: National parks and sanctuaries

Option B: Sanctuaries and biosphere reserves

Option C: National parks and biosphere reserves

Option D: All of these

Correct Answer: All of these ✔

Option A: Gamma diversity

Option B: Beta diversity

Option C: Community diversity

Option D: Ecosystem diversity

Correct Answer: Beta diversity ✔

Option A: Environmental pollution

Option B: Soil erosion

Option C: Afforestation

Option D: Increased urbanization

Correct Answer: Afforestation ✔

Option A: -196

Option B: 126

Option C: 206

Option D: -96

Correct Answer: -196 ✔

Option A: Corals

Option B: Gastropods

Option C: Fishes

Option D: Reptiles

Correct Answer: Corals ✔

Option A: Endangered

Option B: Critically endangered

Option C: Vulnerable

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Critically endangered ✔

Option A: Wild conservation unit

Option B: Wild conservation union

Option C: World communiction union

Option D: World conservation union

Correct Answer: World conservation union ✔

Option A: Food

Option B: Drug

Option C: Industrial use

Option D: Maintenance of ecosystem

Correct Answer: Maintenance of ecosystem ✔

Option A: Skin

Option B: Bones

Option C: Horn

Option D: Tusks

Correct Answer: Horn ✔

Option A: Species diversity

Option B: Alpha diversity

Option C: Beta diversity

Option D: Genetic diversity

Correct Answer: Alpha diversity ✔

Option A: Food

Option B: Industries

Option C: Drug

Option D: Aesthetics

Correct Answer: Drug ✔

Option A: The most valuable and the richest ecosystems on earth

Option B: They play a critical pat in the earth’s life support systems and house 50% and possibly as much as 90% of all the species on earth

Option C: They are a key storehouse of foods, oils and minerals and source of ingredients that make up a range of medical treatments

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Many parts of the world, but primarily in tropical rain forests

Option B: They live in highly organized colonies to a strict caste system

Option C: The nests are built to provide central heating and air-conditioning

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Transboundary pollution describes polluted air and water or any other contaminated waste that is generated in ove country and transmitted to other

Option B: The most pervasive pollutant is sulphur dioxide a by-product of the burning of fossil fuels in power stations

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: The tallest living coniferous evergreen tree

Option B: To reach a height of over 300 feet

Option C: The Sequia sempervirens (the redwood tree is also very long lived) are found from southwest

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The study of fossil plants and animals and of the rock formations where they are found

Option B: The information is used increasingly in environmental sciences to build up a picture of past environments

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A dense accumulation of only partially decomposed plant materials which has formed in wetlands over a period of thousand of years

Option B: It collects in still water which does not have enough oxygen to complete the total process of decay

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: 1970

Option B: 1972

Option C: 1974

Option D: 1976

Correct Answer: 1970 ✔

Option A: The protective layer of ozone in the upper stratosphere, found at a level between 15 and 150 km above

Option B: The Earth which prevents harmful ultraviolet B radiation which causes skin cancer and threatens plant life from reaching the ground

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: The prairies of North America and the steppe of Russia and Central Asia

Option B: Grassland ecosystem support thousand of different species, above and below the ground

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A group of plants which include maize and sorghum

Option B: The process of carbon fixation usually found in tropical plants with high growth rates

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: An abundant family of simple mostly marine organisms

Option B: The important to scientists who are studying climatic change

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: The large coniferous forest areas in the northern hemisphere between the latitudes of 50

Option B: Large areas of boreal forest are found in Scandinavia, Siberia and Northern America

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A group of plants including the soya bean wheat and cotton

Option B: The process of carbon fixation during photosynthesis

Option C: The prod use a compound essential for growth that consists of molecules each containing three atoms of carbon

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The general description of all the flora and fauna of the planet

Option B: It covers all living things from the tiniest submicroscopic organism to the elephant and giant redwood tree

Option C: All of which are supported by the biosphere

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The part of the earth that supports life and consists of the soil, oceans

Option B: The waterways and the atmosphere upto 15 km above the earth’s surface

Option C: Waterways and the

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: ✔

Option A: The protected land and coastal areas

Option B: That are approved under the Man and the Biosphere

Option C: In conjunction with the Conception on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The north polar regions but it has also become used to denote the territory lying within the Arctic Circle

Option B: The landscape, climate and plant and animal life found in those regions

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A type of pollution which washes out of the atmosphere as dilute sulphuric and nitric acids

Option B: It tends to be a regional rather than a global phenomenon linked to particular industrial activities and meteorological conditions

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: The process by which plants and animals become accustomed to unusual environmental conditions

Option B: That they are able to live and produce

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: The cultivation and harvest of freshwater

Option B: Marine animals and plants

Option C: In ponds tanks cages or on protected beds

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The name given to the first report of changes in the amount of ozone

Option B: The upper layers of the atmosphere over the south pole

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Egyptian clover (barseem)Trifolium alexandrnum

Option B: Dhaincha (jayannti) Sesbania aculeata

Option C: Cowpea (lobia) Vigna sinensis

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Fertilizer: Manure: any substance applied to soil fertility and increase plant growth and yield, these may be organic in organic or of bio-origin

Option B: Organic fertilizers: prepared from plant residues (cotton seedcake, groundnut cake etc.)

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Inorganic fertilizers

Option B: Bio-origin fertilizers

Option C: Green manuring

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: Bio-origin fertilizers ✔

Option A: Agents that pollute; these may be gaseous (vapours) or particulate (solid and liquid particles)

Option B: On the basis of the amount and their relative harmfulness or toxicity

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Apiary

Option B: Apiology

Option C: Apitoxin

Option D: Bee(s)

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: An undesirable change in physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, water or land that may

Option B: Will harmfully affect human life, directly or indirectly

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Methods of raising tree crops and their growth and care upto the time of the final harvesting

Option B: Silviculture is the science and art of cultivating forest crops, based on knowledge of silvics

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: To society of American forests (SAF) is an eco-system characterized by a more or less dense and extensive tree cover

Option B: A plant community with predominance of trees and other woody vegetation, growing more or less closely together

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Over a period of time from practicing social forestry / agroforestry

Option B: Several recommendations have emerged from various workshops, seminars and meetings

Option C: Agroforestry, establishment and management of tree crops

Option D: Marketing

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Introduction of technological procedures not suited to the prevailing socio-economic situations

Option B: While agroforestry enterprise may be attractive

Option C: Political will and commitment

Option D: Increasing number of institution without clear definition of functions, good and effective coordination

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: There are several problems that hinder the acceptance of agroforestry concepts

Option B: And their use as tools in rural development

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Local use and knowledge

Option B: Tenure

Option C: Organization

Option D: Conservation

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Maintains or increases site productivity through nutrient recycling and soil protection, at low capital and labour costs

Option B: Increase the value of output on a given area of land through spatial or inter temporal intercropping of tree and other species

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Reduces output of staple food cross, where trees compete for use of arable land and or depress crop yields.

Option B: In compatibility of trees with agricultural practices such as free grazing, burning, common fields

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Agroforestry appears as an interesting contribution to solve the food crisis as well as the energy crisis.

Option B: Agroforestry has been under-estimated and it seems that the shortage will soon attain an even more critical level in the Third World than the shortage of aliments

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Poplars: wheat / maize / turmeric / sugarcane / vegetables / fodder

Option B: Eucalypts: wheat/sunflower/tomatoes/potatoes/chilies

Option C: Simal: maize/sunflower/vegetables/fodder

Option D: Shisham: turmeric/wheat/maize/vegetables

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Forests generally have a beneficent effect on the soil

Option B: The roots of the forest trees take up nutrients from the soil, convert

Option C: And utilize them for the production of plant material

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Competition for water and nutrients and for solar energy

Option B: Future agroforestry systems will have to overcome physiological (canopy structure) biological (pests and disease), ecological (Sustainability and environment protection) constraints besides being economically sound

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Social forestry, farm forestry, agroforestry

Option B: Community forestry, environmental forestry, tree farming

Option C: Forest farming, village woodlots, small-scale forestry

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Land

Option B: Environment

Option C: Agricultural component

Option D: Forestry component

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: With the renewed interest in the role of trees for environmental conservation

Option B: For meeting the day-to-day needs of the people in respect of various forest produce much has been written on the subject

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: However, more than the simple amalgamation of farming and forestry as already stated

Option B: It requires new management practices and technologies

Option C: Which understand the complex interactions of the various components of the system

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Agri-silviculture

Option B: Silvopastoral

Option C: Agrosilvopastoral

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: An inter-disciplinary approach to systems of land use

Option B: It implies an awareness of interactions and feedback between man and environment

Option C: Between demand and available resources in a given area

Option D: Which – under certain conditions – require optimization and sustained management rather that ever-increasing exploitations

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Agro-forestry is a land-use system that involves socially and ecologically acceptable integration of tree with agricultural crops

Option B: Agro-forestry is a sustainable land management system, which increases the overall yield of the land

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Artificial mulches

Option B: Natural inorganic mulches

Option C: Stone mulch

Option D: Organic mulches

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Suppression of weeds, by restricting the amount of light on the ground surface and the hindering their germination and growth

Option B: Conservation of soil, by preventing erosion

Option C: Thermal insulation, leading to greater deposition of dew

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Choice of species

Option B: Planning ornamental planting

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Protective measures against grazing

Option B: Fire protection and controlled burning

Option C: Protection against forest

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Cultivations

Option B: Weeding

Option C: Cover Crops

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Site conditions

Option B: Choice of species

Option C: Layout of planting

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: General considerations

Option B: Site conditions

Option C: Choice of species

Option D: Soil preparation

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Afforestation of dry tracts with irrigation

Option B: Afforestation of canal banks

Option C: Reclamation of dry sites without irrigation

Option D: Reclamation of denuded hill slopes

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: General considerations

Option B: Species for dry zone reclamation

Option C: Site preparation

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: Two or more rotations

Option B: Ten or more rotations

Option C: Twenty or more rotations

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Two or more rotations ✔

Option A: Selection of standards of coppice rotation age for reservation.

Option B: Thinning of standards of two coppice rotations and over.

Option C: Felling of mature standards

Option D: Clear-felling the remaining coppice

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Simple coppice system

Option B: Shelterwood coppice system

Option C: Uniform system

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Shelterwood coppice system ✔

Option A: 5 years

Option B: 7 years

Option C: 10 years

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 10 years ✔

Option A: Simple coppice system

Option B: Complex coppice system

Option C: Uniform system

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Simple coppice system ✔

Option A: Punjab

Option B: Sindh

Option C: Baluchistan

Option D: KPK

Correct Answer: Punjab ✔

Option A: Upper planting

Option B: Under planting

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Under planting ✔

Option A: A systems where the crop originates from coppice and where the rotation of the coppice is short.

Option B: A systems where the crop originates from coppice and where the rotation of the coppice is long.

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: A systems where the crop originates from coppice and where the rotation of the coppice is short. ✔

Option A: The quality of the timber may be inferior to that grown in even-aged crops

Option B: The whole are being always under regeneration

Option C: The light conditions provided by the irregular crop of mixed ages may result in the young growth having a poor chance to develop, except with shadebearing species

Option D: The fellings are scattered over comparatively large areas

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Two-storied high forest

Option B: Three-storied high forest

Option C: Four-storied high forest

Option D: Five -storied high forest

Correct Answer: Two-storied high forest ✔

Option A: Simmons and H.M.Rana

Option B: Champion, Seth and Kattak

Option C: Ahmad Hussain

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Champion, Seth and Kattak ✔

Option A: This method is extremely simple

Option B: Natural flora is preserved

Option C: More volume per acre

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Irregular Shelterwood system

Option B: Coppice system

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Coppice system ✔

Option A: Seashore of Karachi

Option B: In the Hills of Punjab

Option C: Plains of Punjab

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: In the Hills of Punjab ✔

Option A: Selection system

Option B: Irregular Shelterwood system

Option C: Uniform system

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Selection system ✔

Option A: Uniform system

Option B: Group system

Option C: Clear strip system

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Group system ✔