Soil and Agriculture
🌿 The type of soil found in most of the coastal districts of Odisha is:
a) Red soils
b) Black soils
c) Mixed red and black soils
d) Alluvial soils
🌿 The soil type that occurs mostly in the forest areas of Phulbani, Rayagada
and parts of Ganjam and Nayagarh is called:
a) Brown soil
b) Red soil
c) Yellow soil
d) Black soil
🌿 Brown Forest soil type is mostly found in:
a) Malkangiri
b) Phulbani
c) Dhenkanal
d) Cuttack
🌿 Which type of soil group is mostly found in the districts of undivided
Koraput, Keonjhar, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Mayurbhanj?
a) Red soil
b) Black soil
c) Brown forest soil
d) Yellow soil
🌿 Which of the following soils are found largely on the hills of the Eastern
Ghat?
a) Red and Yellow soil
b) Brown forest soil
c) Regur soil
d) Laterite soil
🌿 As compared to 0.06 ha per capita forest cover in India, Odisha has
ha.
a) 1.12
b) 0.24
C) 0.14
d) 0.19
🌿 The Laterite soil is rich in:
a) Sulphur Oxide
c) Nitric Oxcide
b) Sodium Oxcide
d) Ferric Oxcide
🌿 What is the required percentage of vegetation cover required to restore
ecological balance?
a) 30%
b) 33%
C) 38%
d) 25%
🌿 As per the 11 State Forest Report 2011 of Odisha the total area under
forest constitute percent of total area.
a) 33.54
b) 30.76
C) 34.44
d) 37.34
🌿 As per the recent report out of 16 major forest types found in India the
number major forest type that exist in Odisha is:
a) 11
b) 9
C) 7
d) 4
🌿 Which type of forest in Odisha covers more than fifty percent of the total
area under forest in the State?
a) Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest
b) Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
c) Tropical Semi Evergreen Forest
d) Littoral and Swamp Forest
🌿 Which or the following stalenes regaramy is INCORRECT?
a) There has been considerable increase in the forest cover in the
State during the recent years.
b) There are four National Parks, 18 Sanctuaries and one Biosphere
Reserve in the State.
c) The State has a recorded forest area measuring 58,136 sq km as
per the State Forest Report 2011.
d) The total recorded forest area of Odisha was 37.34 percent of its
total geographical area.
🌿 Which of the following forest type is NOT found in Odisha?
a) Monsoon Forest
b) Mangrove Forest
c) Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
d) Tropical Rain Forest
🌿. Teak and Salia bamboo are typical tree species mostly found in:
a) Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest
b) Tropical Semi Evergreen Forest
c) Tropical Rain Forest
d) Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
🌿 Which of the following forest type is also known as Monsoon Forest?
a) Tropical semi-evergreen forest
b) Tidal swamp forest
c) Central Indian subtropical hill forest
d) Tropical moist deciduous forest
🌿 Sal (Shorea robusta) a type of species mostly found in which type of
forest?
a) Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest
b) Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
c) Monsoon Forest
d) Mangrove Forest
🌿 Forests of which part of Odisha is considered ecologically the meeting
points of two giant species of Indian Forests – Sal and Teak?
a) Northern
b) Western
c) Southern
d) Eastern