MCQ
Forests are not responsible for :
- AProviding medicinal plants.
- BMaintaining the flow of water into the streams.
- ✓Creating flood conditions.
- DAbsorbing rainwater and maintaining water table.
✓
Answer
Correct option: C.
Creating flood conditions.
Forests provide us with many resources such as medicinal plants, fuel, food etc. They also play important role in preventing flood by absorbing the rainwater. Since the plants absorbs water from rains, not all water flows into the river, streams.
Need a full question paper?
Generate a complete, print-ready paper with questions like this in minutes — across 16+ boards, with answer keys.
Explore more
Similar questions
Multiple fission occurs in one of the following. This is :
A doctor advised a person to take an injection of insulin because :
A student carries out an experiment and plots the $V-I$ graph of three samples of nichrome wire with resistances $R_1, R_2$ and $R_3$ respectively $($Figure$)$. Which of the following is true?
→A virtual image three times the size of the object is obtained with a concave mirror of radius of curvature $36\ cm.$ The distance of the object from the mirror is :
→A sample of soil is mixed with water and allowed to settle. The clear supernatant solution turns the $\ce{pH}$ paper yellowish $-$ orange. Which of the following would change the colour of this $\ce{pH}$ paper to greenish $-$ blue?
→The three imaginary elements $X, Y$ and $Z$ represent a Dobernener's triad. If the atomic mass of element $X$ is $14$ and that of element $Y$ is $46,$ then the atomic mass of element $Z$ will be :
→If copper is kept open in air, it slowly loses its shining brown surface and gains a green coating. It is due to the formation of :
Though a woman can see the distant object clearly, she cannot see the nearby objects clearly. She is suffering from the defect of vision called:
The difference in the formula and molecular masses of $\mathrm{CH}_3 \mathrm{OH}$ and $\mathrm{C}_2 \mathrm{H}_5 \mathrm{OH}$ is :
→What is the chemical name of a substance used in white washing?