Class 7 Science Chapter 12 MCQ

Forests serve as green lungs as they produce oxygen for breathing and respiration and help in maintaining oxygen and carbon dioxide balance in the atmosphere.

As leaves, trees, other plants and animals die, they all fall on the forest floor. The animal wastes also fall on the forest floor and collect there. On the forest floor, there are a large number of the decomposers such as bacteria and fungi. The decomposers break down dead leaves, branches and trees, dead animals and animal wastes to form humans which contain the nutrients or mineral salts. Humus mixes up with the soil in the forest and the nutrients present in it are used for the growth of plants.

Forests provide us many useful products such as fire-wood, timber, honey, fruits, sealing wax or lac, catechu, natural rubber, medicinal plants, fodder and wood for making paper. Plywood is normally made from wood. And kerosene is petroleum products which we get from crude oil. Hence, your answer will be option [D].

A tree has the strongest stem.

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Thermocol is not prepared from the wood obtained from the forest. Paper, matchsticks and plywood are prepared from the wood.

The forest is an ecosystem consisting of living things such as plants, animals and decomposers and non-living things such as soil, water and air. In the forest ecosystem, there is an interaction between living things and non-living environment. When plants and animals die, then the decomposers organisms decompose their dead bodies into nutrients, water and carbon dioxide. Nutrients and water are returned to the soil, and carbon dioxide is returned to the air. These nutrients, water and carbon dioxide are then re-used for the growth of new plants in the forest. And this process goes on and on like an un-ending chain. Thus, we can say that the various components of a forest are interdependent on one another.

Porcupine is not the name of a tree rather it is an animal. Teak, Sal and Kachnar are names of trees.

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Here, all these statements are correct. Hence, your answer will be option [D].

The branchy part of a tree above the stem is known as the “Crown” of the tree. The crown includes the top part of a tree which has all the branches and leaves of the tree.

When plants and animals die, then the decomposers organisms decompose their dead bodies into nutrients, water and carbon dioxide, not oxygen. Where nutrients and water are returned to the soil, and carbon dioxide is returned to the air. These nutrients, water and carbon dioxide are then re-used for the growth of new plants in the forest. And this process goes on and on like an un-ending chain.

Forests are not responsible for creating flood conditions, as they protect from flood condition.

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Those animals which eat dead animals’ area called scavengers. Scavengers eat up the dead bodies of animals and a help in keeping forest environment clean. Vultures, crows, jackals, hyena, some insects and beetles are the example of scavengers. Without scavengers’ dead body of the forest animals could not be got rid of quickly. But they are not decomposers.

When plants and animals die, then the decomposers organisms decompose their dead bodies into nutrients, water and carbon dioxide. Decomposers are commonly known as “saprotrophs”. Where nutrients and water are returned to the soil, and carbon dioxide is returned to the air. These nutrients, water and carbon dioxide are then re-used for the growth of new plants in the forest. And this process goes on and on like an un-ending chain.

The forest has a wide variety of animals. The type of animals also differ from forest to forest. The common animals which are found in forest in our country are monkey, jackal, elephants, tigers, lions, squirrel, porcupine, peacock, snakes, honey bees and other various small animals. The insects such as butterflies, honey bees and birds help in flowering plants of the forest in pollination not an Antelopes. An African animal with horns and long, thin legs that can run very fast. It looks like deer.

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We know that excessive cutting down of forest trees should not be allowed by the Government (any countries) to conserve forest. Trees should be planted in the forest in place of cut down trees to conserve forest. Paper products such as old newspaper, magazine books and notebooks etc., should be recycle to conserve forest. We get jute and cotton bags from plants. And plastic we made in laboratory through chemical substances. Though recycling of paper bags will help in the conservation of forest.

In a forest, trees form the uppermost layer followed by shrubs and the herbs form the lowest layer of vegetation

No body has planted any trees in the natural forests. The natural forests contain trees and plants which have grown on their own.

Destruction of forests would not prevent flooding of rivers, loss of life and property. Destruction of forests can change the earth’s climate. There would be no life without forest.

Here, all these statements are correct. Hence, your answer will be option [D].

Here, all these statements are correct. Hence, your answer will be option [D].

Here, all these statements are correct. Hence, your answer will be option [D].