Question

‘Forests are bio-diversity hot spots’. Justify the statement

Answer 1

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversitythat is threatened with destruction. For example forests are considered as biodiversity hotspots. 

Answer 2

Because forest consists of different life forms such as bacteria, fungi, plant etc, and can be termed as bio-diversity hot spot as biodiversity of a particular area is defined by no.of species found in the place.