SSC CGL Study Materials - Natural Vegetation of India

Friends, here is the Fifth Lesson of our SSC CGL Geography

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Materials series. You can get remaining lessons below this post. In this post we shall discuss the important points of Natural Vegetation in India. Natural Vegetation of a country is nothing but different types of forests that are found in that country.

• Two factors which influence forest types - Climate and Soil
• Total Forest Area - 6,92,027 Km2  (As per India State of Forest Report, 2011)
• Present India's forest cover - 23.07%
• Needed Forest Cover to maintain ecological balance - 33%
• The largest forest cover - Madhya Pradesh (77265sq kms)
• The lowest forest cover - Haryana (1745 sq kms)
• The highest concentration of forest land - Arunachal Pradesh (62.1%)
  
• National Forest Policy - 1952
• Economically most important forests - Moist Deciduous forests
• Sundarbans are named after - Sun-dari trees
• Sandal wood is produced mainly in - Tropical moist decidouous forests
• Sandal wood - Karnataka forests
• Alpine vegetation is found in - Upper Himalayas
• Railway sleepers - Himalayan forests
• Teak is abundantly grown in - Karnataka Forests
• Important forest based industries: Paper, Beedimaking, Matches, Dyes, Plywood, Medicinal industries

Natural Vegetation - Forest Types

• Tropical ever green forests 
• Hilly terrain with 500-1500 mts. Altitude rainfall - exceeding 200 cms
• Tropical moist deciduous forests 
• Hilly terrain and plateau surfaces. Rainfall between 100 and 200 cms.
• Tropical dry deciduous forests
• Vast areas of plateau and plain areas with rainfall between 70 an d100 cms
• Thorn forests
• Dry areas with rainfall less than 70 cms
• Tidal forests
• Grow in the brackish as well as fresh water areas of the tide washed coast
• The Himalayan Temperate and Alpine forests
• Entire Himalayan range in the 100-250 cms. Rainfall zone at an elevation of 1600-3000 mts and the Alpine forests at a higher elevation of 3500 mts and above.

Read previous lessons of SSC CGL Geography from below

• Lesson 1 : The Locational and Spatial Setting of India
• Lesson 2 : Physical Features - Relief and Drainage
• Lesson 3 : Climate
• Lesson 4 : Soils of India