Forestry MCQs

Option A: USA/Korea

Option B: Pakistan

Option C: France

Option D: England

Correct Answer: USA/Korea ✔

Option A: Thermal power plant

Option B: Automobile

Option C: Radioactive power plant

Option D: Hydroelectric power plant

Correct Answer: Hydroelectric power plant ✔

Option A: Ozone, peroxyacetyl nitrate and No2

Option B: Smoke, peroxyacetyl nitrate and SO2

Option C: Hydrocarbons, SO2 and CO2

Option D: Hydrocarbons, ozone and SO2

Correct Answer: Ozone, peroxyacetyl nitrate and No2 ✔

Option A: Fungi

Option B: Lichen

Option C: Algae

Option D: Fishes

Correct Answer: Lichen ✔

Option A: SO2 and CO2

Option B: NO2 and hydrocarbons

Option C: Carbon di-oxide and NO2

Option D: Hydrocarbons and CFCs

Correct Answer: NO2 and hydrocarbons ✔

Option A: CO

Option B: SO2

Option C: Ozone

Option D: Flourides

Correct Answer: Ozone ✔

Option A: Carbon di-oxide

Option B: Nitrogen di-oxide

Option C: Carbon monoxide

Option D: Sulphur dioxide

Correct Answer: Carbon di-oxide ✔

Option A: Air

Option B: Water

Option C: Soil

Option D: Noise

Correct Answer: Noise ✔

Option A: Excess use of fertilizers

Option B: Addition of wastes on soil

Option C: Reduction in soil productivity

Option D: All of these

Correct Answer: All of these ✔

Option A: World forest day

Option B: World environment day

Option C: World red cross day

Option D: World food day

Correct Answer: World environment day ✔

Option A: Micro-organisms

Option B: Green vegetation of an area

Option C: Food crop

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Micro-organisms ✔

Option A: Population explosion

Option B: Nitrogen di-oxide

Option C: Global warming

Option D: Sulphur dioxide

Correct Answer: Population explosion ✔

Option A: Industrial wastes poured into water bodies

Option B: Extent to which water is polluted with organic compounds

Option C: Amount of carbon monoxide inseparably combined with haemoglobin

Option D: Amount of oxygen needed by green plants during night

Correct Answer: Amount of oxygen needed by green plants during night ✔

Option A: Heavy metals

Option B: Faecal matter

Option C: Industrial effluents

Option D: Pollen of aquatic plants

Correct Answer: Faecal matter ✔

Option A: Eichhornia crassipes

Option B: Solanum nigrum

Option C: Hydrilla

Option D: Parthenium hysterophorus

Correct Answer: Eichhornia crassipes ✔

Option A: A flowery garden completes the beauty of a house

Option B: It goes to satisfy aesthetic sense along with palate

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Always pick flowers in the early morning or in the evening

Option B: Always carry cut flowers heads down to ensure their freshness for a longer period

Option C: If you have freshly picked flowers and want them to be preserved for a longer period plunge them in a bucket or sink of water right upto their heads

Option D: The flowers will remain fresh for a longer period of if you put their stems embedded inside a potato frustum

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Delonix regia, Bojer

Option B: Millettia ovalifolia, Kurz

Option C: Erytherina glabrescens, Parker

Option D: Cassia fistula, Linn

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The gold Mohr native of Madagascar is a large deciduous trees

Option B: Leaves bipinnate

Option C: Flowers 4 inches across bright-scarlet

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A small deciduous tree

Option B: Flowers purple

Option C: In recemes 2-3 inches long

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A shrub or small tree

Option B: Leaves 6-9 inches long

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A small evergreen tree

Option B: Bark thin, smooth

Option C: Branches green

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A large evergreen shrub

Option B: Leaves 3-4 inches long

Option C: Coarsely toothed

Option D: Staminal-tube much exerted

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A large evergreen shrub

Option B: Leaves in whorls, elliptic-oblong or oblong-obovate

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A large twinning nearly glabrous shrub with suberect striate branches

Option B: Leaves opposite

Option C: Flowers 1.2-1.5 inches across

Option D: White in lax axillary and terminal cymes

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A small deciduous tree with thick branches and copious milky juice

Option B: Leaves spirally arranged

Option C: 6-12 inches long

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A large tree

Option B: Leaves 1-2 feet

Option C: Long bipinnate

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A large scrambling evergreen shrub

Option B: 4-8 feet high twigs usually more or less prickly pubescent, prickles

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Rose is the most popular and most enchanting flower not only for its look or fragrance

Option B: Its various medicinal and commercial uses

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: A very useful flower which has variety of uses

Option B: Its ideal time for sowing is spring season

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: It should be grown at the onset of winters just after rains

Option B: Its main season is winters

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: It is very soft and sweet flower of enchanting fragrance

Option B: It is also used to prepare oil

Option C: It is a very delicate flower and needs meticulous care

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: It is called ‘Gul-lala’ in Urdu

Option B: Its flowers are bright and cup-shaped

Option C: The ideal time to make preparation for its growth is between September to October

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A large suberect shrub

Option B: Branches scrambling over tall trees; armed with recurved thorns

Option C: Leaves 1-2 inch long, 25 inch across in threes

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: An erect glabrous evergreen shrub with milky juice

Option B: Leave ternate, sometimes opposite, thick coriaceous

Option C: flowers 1-5 inches across red pink or white fragrant in terminal panicles

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Forest rights: Estates to be placed under forest management are often burdened with rights adverse to the public

Option B: Forest contain a variety of produce like soil, undergrowth, grass, minerals

Option C: The ignorant population considers forest as everybody’s property

Option D: The receipts from the forest belong to the state, therefore, laws are necessary for its punctual realization

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Act: Any law passed by any law making authority

Option B: Aquit: If the guilt is not proved, the person is acquitted. To set free somebody not found guilty of a crime

Option C: Accused: To charge some one with a crime

Option D: Convict: If the crime is proved, said that he is a convict. To find some one guilty of a crime

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: S.35: It is all about the protection of forest for special purposes

Option B: S.38: It is about the protection of forest at the request of owners

Option C: S.52: The forest officer has power to seize any property (e.g. forest produce, tools, transport etc.)

Option D: S.62: If a forest officer wrongfully and unnecessarily seizes any property, he can be published with a term upto 6 months, Rs. 500/- as fine or both

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: 1936

Option B: 1938

Option C: 1939

Option D: 1940

Correct Answer: 1936 ✔

Option A: Forests provide timber and firewood, which have high calorific and commercial value for construction

Option B: Forest are source of aesthetic look especially linear plantations

Option C: Forests make the microclimate more pleasant making their surroundings cooler

Option D: Forests save crops, human being, and cattle from the dangerous effects of galleys

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Punishment for the wood damage should be revised

Option B: Undue political involvement should be stopped

Option C: Organizational set up of the forest department must be strong and broad based

Option D: Agroforestry practices should be increased in irrigated plantations

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: No proper mechanism existed for implementing policy directives

Option B: Provinces felt no follow to comply with national policies because forestry is a provincial responsibility

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Nature conservation

Option B: Forestry

Option C: Forest related trade

Option D: Development of tourism

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Promote environmental stability and preserve biodiversity

Option B: Increase productivity of forests, farmlands, rangelands and watersheds

Option C: Alleviate poverty and promote better living conditions

Option D: Encourage private sector involvement in forestry

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Start target oriented programmes for regenerating degraded forestlands with the local people’s participation

Option B: Provide incentives for people to frow fuel and fodder trees on private lands and rangelands around forests

Option C: Suitable fuel wood in sensitive and critical area such as threatened ecosystems

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Accelerate harvesting of mature and over mature trees in the well stocked, unexploited forests

Option B: Manage all scrub forest as rangelands for maximum sustained production of forage and soil and watershed conservation

Option C: Classify according to site conditions and manage strictly on the basis of economic returns

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Encourage large scale growing of trees on private farms by providing subsidized nursery stock and technical assistance

Option B: Encourage the private growing of industrial wood.

Option C: Promote growing of compact plantations on waterlogged, saline and other marginal private lands

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Accelerate amenity linear tree planting along all government roads, canals and railways

Option B: Canal side plantations are more commercial than amenity

Option C: Involve social institutions, NGOs and industries in amenity planting at public places like hospitals, schools

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Survey and inventory areas potentially rich in biodiversity and list indigenous flora and fauna

Option B: Declare areas with rich biodiversity as genetic preserves in the form of managed wildlife sancturies or national parks

Option C: Create career specialities in ecosystem, environment and wildlife management

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: It is essential to protect and improve rangelands through integrated extension services and approaches

Option B: Initiate provincial integrated rangelands, fodder and livestock improvement programmes

Option C: Coordinate range management research with research on livestock improvement feed and marketing

Option D: Establish owner-grazier associations to devise and ensure regulated rotational grazing

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Keep all wood industry in the private sector

Option B: Provide research and technical advice for improved wood manufacturing processes

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Introduce more efficient wood burning stoves

Option B: Encourage use of reconstituted wood over solid wood

Option C: Research and develop more efficient and suitable logging technology

Option D: Evolve technology for industrial uses of inferior and small sized woods

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Encourage corporate forestry by providing easy credits, public land leasehold concessions and other facilities

Option B: Consider the possibility of issuing government bonds to attract private capital for funding big forestry projects

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Revise the 1927 Forest Act to make it less punitive and more participatory in its approach

Option B: Consolidate and amend other laws to update and bring them into harmony with new policy demands and the national Conservation Strategy

Option C: Planted land use

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Sustainability and biodiversity functions of forests

Option B: Safeguarding against over cutting public and private forest

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Strengthen and expand specialization in watershed, wildlife and environmental sciences

Option B: Introduce training in high technology like genetic engineering and computer modelling

Option C: Open up training of social foresters to qualified universities

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: State owned forests

Option B: Private owned forests

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Reserved forests

Option B: Protected forests

Option C: Resumed lands

Option D: Unclassed forests

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Guzara forests

Option B: Communal forests

Option C: Chos Act area

Option D: Section 38 areas

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Obtain maximum benefits from the forest resources on a sustainable basis

Option B: Fix short and long term goals and identify strategies to achieve those goals

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Pakistan mainstary is agriculture which is dependent on canal irrigation. Sound management of watersheds should, therefore, constitute the basic objective of forest policy

Option B: Because of inadequate forest resources Pakistan must concentrate on developing new plantations.

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: 1948

Option B: 1949

Option C: 1950

Option D: 1951

Correct Answer: 1948 ✔

Option A: 1968-1970

Option B: 1969-1971

Option C: 1971-1972

Option D: 1972-1973

Correct Answer: 1969-1971 ✔

Option A: 1972

Option B: 1973

Option C: 1974

Option D: 1975

Correct Answer: 1972 ✔

Option A: 1973

Option B: 1974

Option C: 1975

Option D: 1976

Correct Answer: 1974 ✔

Option A: 1973

Option B: 1974

Option C: 1975

Option D: 1976

Correct Answer: 1975 ✔

Option A: 1976

Option B: 1977

Option C: 1978

Option D: 1979

Correct Answer: 1976 ✔

Option A: 1988

Option B: 1989

Option C: 1990

Option D: 1991

Correct Answer: 1988 ✔

Option A: Forest Policy 1955

Option B: Policy Directive of 1962

Option C: Policy on forestry and Wildlife (as a part of the National Agriculture Policy) 1980

Option D: Forest Policy (as a part of the National Agriculture Policy) 1991

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Federal

Option B: Provincial

Option C: Local

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Forest Policy

Option B: Foreign assistance and training

Option C: Research and education

Option D: Provincial coordination

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Are concerned only with harvesting activities like felling, conversion of logs or sleepers (scants)

Option B: Carriage from forest to roadside and from roadside to market

Option C: Where timber is distributed according to the shares of the government and owners in ratio 20:80 or 40:60

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: KPK

Option B: Azad Kashmir

Option C: Punjab

Option D: Both (a) & (b)

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Forest policy

Option B: Five year plan

Option C: Annual Development Programme (ADP)

Option D: Development Projects

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Damage done by people living in the vicinity of forests during activities they perform to meet their domestic needs and to keep their body and soul together

Option B: Damage done by both local people and outsiders to derive financial benefits and acquire riches over nights

Option C: Damage from natural causes such as fire, pests etc.

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The principles set out in this Chapter shall be known as the principles of policy

Option B: It is the responsibility of each organ and authority of the state

Option C: Each person performing functions on behalf of an organ or authority of the state

Option D: To the functions of the organ or authority

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: To enumerate basic principles and goals for the conservation

Option B: And development of forest resources in the country to meet social, economic and ecological needs

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Obtain optimum benefits from the forest resource on a sustainable basis

Option B: Fix short and long term goals and identify strategies to achieve those goals

Option C: Promote and ensure cooperation between government and private agencies have land use responsibilities that affect forestry activities directly or indirectly

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Is guided and influenced by the social, economic

Option B: And environmental needs of a country, both present and future

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Pakistan’s mainstay is agriculture, which is dependent on canal irrigation. Sound management of watersheds should, therefore, constitute the basic objective of forest policy

Option B: Because of inadequate forest resources Pakistan must concentrate on developing new plantations.

Option C: The country is heavily populated and faces an energy crisis. Since there is little scope to increase the area of state forests, agro-forestry programmes should be of vital concern to meet fuelwood requirements.

Option D: Both (a) & (b)

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Meet country’s requirements of timber, fuelwood, fodder and other products and environmental needs by increasing the forest area from 4.2 percent to 10 percent during next fifteen years

Option B: Promote social forestry programmes including watershed in hills and farm forestry in plains

Option C: Generate opportunities for income and self-employment for the rural populace

Option D: Take anti-desertification measures and rehabilitate water logged, saline and degraded lands through vegetation treatment

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Hill forests

Option B: Watersheds

Option C: Rangelands

Option D: Wildlife areas

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Existing forest resources shall be scientifically managed for optimum productivity to meet the country’s need for wood and wood products and to reduce reliance on imports

Option B: Sericulture industry shall be promoted to provide opportunities of employment and income for the rural populace

Option C: Social forestry shall be adopted as a standard practice and extended to all farmlands to increase productivity and to improve the environment

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Forests are managed intensively and the pilot projects started in Kaghan valley in Hazara and Kalam valley in Malakand Civil Divisions are replicated at other suitable locations

Option B: Extraction from coniferous forests is limited to public sector only. Timber harvesting has already been departmentalized in four provinces and Azad Kashmir

Option C: The jurisdictional charges of forest personnel are rationalized to make them more manageable

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: All watershed projects, being a common source denominator, would be planned and coordinated by the Federal Government but implemented through Provincial Forest Departments in their respective areas

Option B: Grazing in reforested areas would be controlled until the newly-raised plants are fully established

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Development of fodder tree planting programmes to increase availability of green fodder

Option B: Creation of grazing lots on an experimental basis to induce private investment by livestock owners in rangeland management

Option C: Reseeding of depleted rangelands with nutritious and high yielding grasses

Option D: Introduction of legislation to support range management agencies and their programmes

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Conserve all endangered and endemic species of wild fauna and flora in particular by ensuring the survival of the critical ecosystems that support such wildlife

Option B: Arrange periodic surveys of the country’s wildlife and its habitats to monitor ecological changes

Option C: Encourage private sector in captive breeding of wild animals, in particular the endangered species

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A rich and varied flora and fauna, plants and animals, both wild

Option B: And domesticated are the living entitles of natural and man made ecosystems

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Launch outreach/extension programmes featuring social forestry concepts, ideas and opportunities for the relevant audience

Option B: Train staff, motivators, NGOs and PVOs in outreach and extension techniques and methods

Option C: Develop a system for monitoring and evaluation of outreach programmes

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Arrange adequate and effective distribution of saplings and seeds at nominal cost

Option B: Promote the use of village shamlats for social forestry

Option C: Encourage rehabilitation of degraded forest lands

Option D: Consider the introduction of a forestry grant scheme

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Upgrade training facilities to expand and improve forestry education and to cater to the future requirements of trained personnel in the relevant fields of specialisation

Option B: Integrate forestry education in the Pakistan Forest Institute with the university system

Option C: Encourage induction of women into the forestry profession through training programmes

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Implement programmes to minimize environmental pollution and environmental hazards through tree conservation and planting

Option B: Develop a framework and prepare programmes for establishing green wind breaks on arid lands to check erosion and desertification

Option C: Establish green areas in all cities having populations of 50,000 or more

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Periodic physical/mapping surveys

Option B: Implementation of a programme for the improvement of statistics relating to forests and wildlife which includes a remote sensing laboratory and Geographical Information System (GIS)

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Exemption of custom duties on aerial ropeways and skyline cranes used exclusively for forest exploitation and management

Option B: Introduction of tree insurance scheme on a pilot project basis

Option C: Study tours abroad for progressive farmers to update their knowledge

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Every reason to believe that the general attitude of the people to forests is one of indifference and antagonism.

Option B: Who live in or near the forests, as a rule, dislike the restrictions and regulations which are a part and parcel of the management

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Government is the supreme owner of forestland

Option B: Forests have been classed as reserved forests, protected forests, unclassed forests and community forests (Guzara forests), according to the need of protection

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Seize and confiscate the property or release the same when the violation of law by some person is disproved. Similarly anything helping commission of offence can be confiscated

Option B: Try in the court anybody committing the offence or liable to do so

Option C: Arrest without warrant, and release on bond a person so arrested

Option D: Make any type of rules at any time and delete any of the previous rules

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: 1958

Option B: 1959

Option C: 1960

Option D: 1961

Correct Answer: 1958 ✔

Option A: 1926

Option B: 1927

Option C: 1928

Option D: 1929

Correct Answer: 1927 ✔

Option A: 1911

Option B: 1912

Option C: 1913

Option D: 1914

Correct Answer: 1913 ✔