Question

Describes any three characteristics of tropical decidusous forest?

Answer 1

i. These forests are the most wide spread forests of India.

ii. Another name of these forests is the monsoon forests.

iii. They spread over areas of annual rainfall ranging between 200 cm and 70 cm.

iv. Trees of these forests shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in dry season.

v. Every species has its own time of shedding leaves. Therefore, the forest does not appear leaveless at any time of the year.

(any three)