(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

Classify the following trees as Soft-wood and Hard-wood trees:
Fir, Pine, Teak, Spruce, Rosewood, Sandalwood, Chir, Sal, Shisham and Silver Fir.

Give one important use of the following types of trees:
Sundri

Give one important use of the following types of trees:

Sandalwood

Give one important use of the following types of trees:

Rosewood.

Name any three trees found in monsoon deciduous forests and state one use of each of these trees.

Describe the type of trees found growing in the monsoon forests of Western India. Which one of these trees is the most valuable? Why has the Government designated the areas where these trees are cultivated as ‘reserves’?

What are the characteristics of the Mangrove and give one use.

Name the various uses of the coconut tree.

Give the importance of the date-palm (Khajera)

Name two important trees each of the Srinagar Valley in Kashmir and the Dandakaranya’ region in South India, indicating their commercial importance.

Describe briefly the value of forests to man.

Give the names of four important products of forests. Why are forests grown in and around iron and steel cities?

Give one use of each: teak, sal, myrobalan, sisam, sandalwood, eucalyptus.

Name the region where desert vegetation is found.

Give one characteristic of these trees.

Name the principal trees of this region.

Give one use of Babul (Acacia), Khair.

Mention three methods for the conservation and development of forests in India.

Thar desert looks like a wasteland or Desert soil is almost dry.

Monsoon forests are commercially very important.