Question

What do you mean by biome ? Classify the natural vegetation in india

Answer 1

biome :

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.

Answer 2

Here is your answer

A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.

Classification of Natural Vegetation in India

Flora refers to plants of a particular region or period, listed as species and considered as a group. Vegetation, on the other hand, refers to the assemblage of plant species living in association with each other in a given environmental frame or ecological frame. Finally, the word forest is used, often loosely, by administrators and the general public to denote a large tract covered by trees and shrubs.
1. Moist Tropical Types:

(a) Tropical West Evergreen

(b) Tropical Moist Semi-Evergreen

(c) Tropical Moist Deciduous
(d) Tidal

2. Dry Tropical Types:

(a) Tropic.al Dry Deciduous

(b) Tropical Dry Evergreen

(c) Tropical Thorn

3. Montane Sub-Tropical and Temperate Types:

(a) Wet-Hill Forests (Southern)

(b) ‘Wet-Temperate Forests (Southern)

4. Montane Types (Himalayan):

(a) Wet-Hill

(b) Sub-Tropical Pine

(c) Sub-Tropical Dry Evergreen

(d) Moist Temperate

(e) Dry Temperate

5. Alpine Types:

(a) Alpine