Social Forestry MCQs

Option A: It is forestry of people by the people and for the people

Option B: The forestry in which the efforts aimed at raising and managing trees for the benefits of rural people

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Capabilities of the land

Option B: The villagers choice of land use

Option C: Nature of the support the organizational structure provides

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The technology must be more suitable and available and must be more productive and ecologicallly sustainable than that already in use

Option B: The villagers must feel secured of the benefits

Option C: New uses of the land and other resources must be profitable from the villager’s point of view

Option D: Perception of such benefits is more fundamental to promised incentives

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Villagers feel apprehensive of the programme, which they feel is another version of taking away their land by the government

Option B: Programme needs community’s voluntary cooperation and cannot be imposed on it

Option C: Programme should be based on the trust and confidence on both sides

Option D: Alternate employment opportunities made available locally reduce pressures on forests

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: It is specialized branch of forestry that has as its objective the cultivation and management of trees for their present

Option B: Potential contribution to the physiological, socio-logical and economic wellbeing of urban society

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Whatever is done for the forest to maintain the health and vigour

Option B: Whatever is done to the forest to prevent undue interference with the society

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Climate amelioration

Option B: Environmental engineering uses Architectural uses

Option C: Aesthetic uses

Option D: Aesthetic uses

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Industrial forestry

Option B: Energy forestry

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Betterment of environment

Option B: Reduction of pollution

Option C: Protection from wind, conservation of moisture

Option D: Reduction of moisture

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Cultivating trees and agricultural crops in intimate combination with one another is an ancient practice that farmers have used throughout the world

Option B: Until the Middle Ages, it was the general custom to clear-fell degraded forest, burn the slash, cultivate food crops for varying periods on the cleared areas

Option C: Plant or sow trees before, along with

Option D: After sowing agriculture crops

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Agroforestry normally involves two or more species of plants at least one of which is a woody perennial

Option B: An agroforestry system always has two or more outputs

Option C: The cycle of an agroforestry system is always more than one year

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Productivity

Option B: Sustainability

Option C: Adoptability

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Structural basis

Option B: Functional basis

Option C: Socio-economic basis

Option D: Ecological basis

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Structure of the system (nature and arrangement of components)

Option B: Function of the system (role and output of components)

Option C: Socio-economic seals and management levels of the system

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Agrisilvicultural

Option B: Silvopastoral

Option C: Agrosilvopastoral

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The multipurpose tree and shrubs could be defined as trees grown deliberately

Option B: Kept and managed for preferably more than one intended use

Option C: Usually economically motivated major products

Option D: Services in any multipurpose land use system, especially agroforestry system

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The trees with many uses would be preferred to those with one single use

Option B: But in a broad sense every tree has at least the triple functions of protective, productive and socio-economic roles

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Moderation of micro/macro climatic parameters, checking soil erosion and water run-off

Option B: Soil improvement/fertility build up, water conservation and flow moderation

Option C: Wildlife habitats

Option D: Past and weed control

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Wood: timber, building material, veneers, chipboards and other panel products, pulp and paper, rayon etc.

Option B: Bark: Raw as fuel, dyes, tannis and chemical extraction etc.

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔

Option A: Raw: Firewood

Option B: Processed: Charcoal, gases or liquid fuels, chemical stem extractives, resin, oil, paint, varnishes

Option C: Leaf: Tatch, fodder, oil, silk, wrapper, medicines, honey, dyes, food

Option D: Root: Fibre, fuelwood, dyes, and chemical extractives

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Employment generation

Option B: Income generation – foreign exchange

Option C: Import substitution

Option D: Public education

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔