Chapter - conservation

PART- A

Q1: what is wildlife?

Ans: plants and animals lives in their natural habitat is known as wildlife.

Q2: what are five categories of threatened species instead in the red data book? 

Ans: the five categories are: 

1. Rare

2. Critical

3. Endangered

4. Vulnerable

5. Indeterminate

Q3: mention the factors that cause depletion or loss of biodiversity? 

Ans: these factors are: 

1. Development

2. Hunting and fishing

 3. Pollution

4. Practice of monoculture

Q4 : name three international organisations involved in the conservation of biodiversity? 

Ans: IUNC,WWF, and UNESCO.

Q5 : what is the mission of man and the biosphere programme of UNESCO? 

Ans: their main aim is make and maintain 193 biogeographical zones in the earth and protect plant and animal in their natural habitat.

Q6: what is the aim of the joint forest management programme? 

Ans:it is launched by government. Its aim is regenerate and protect the degraded forest by the people help.

Q7: name three special projects launched to protect endangered animals in India ?

Ans: this special projects are

Project tiger.

Project elephant.

Project crocodile.

Q8: what does sustainable utilisation of natural resources means?

Ans:it means  sustainable use of natural resources for the needs of present generation. So that our future generation can also these natural resources.

PART- B

Q1: what does extinct mean? Name an animal that has become extinct in the world and one that is extinct in India?

Ans: extinct mean : when a plant on animals finish from the world or from a country. Then that's known as extent the animal that from world: dodo

India : cheetah, pink headed duck.

Q2: what is monoculture? What is danger linked to this practice?

Ans: it is a practice of growing one type of plants in the land is called monoculture. It will cause a loss of biodiversity. It will increase the speed of deforestation for list of animal that depend on plants are also affected.

Q3: what are the function of botanical survey, zoological survey and forest survey of India?

Ans: botanical survey of India: keeps a record of all plants.

Zoological survey: they keep track of all the animal species.

Forest survey: these studies all forest resources of our country. 

PART-C

Q1: what is biodiversity? How is it linked with our survival?

Ans: it is a variety of plant and animal life in the world is called biodiversity . biodiversity is linked to a survival. The food we eat to gain energy, it comes from different plants. The oxygen that we use to breathe it cause it comes from plant. During photosynthesis. If the biodiversity of a place is disturbing. It will change the atmosphere of that place.

Q2 : what is an exotic species? How do exhorted species harm biodiversity?

Ans: the species which do not belong to a place but brought some some other please is called exotic species .for example , spotted deer is introduced in Andaman and nicobar island is exhausted from that place 

 It is now damaging the forest plants and crop plants.

Q3: write briefly about chipko Andolan.

Ans: it was started in 1973 in Gopeshwar.

village of Uttarakhand. It was started to save the trees full list of The villages of the king's men to cut down the trees. By hugging with the trees  of so many people got inspired by this and this movement spread in the Himalayan region under the leadership of Sundar Lal Bhagwan and Chandi Prasad Bhatt.

CHAPTER- CONVERSATION

BY ANMOL 8TH (D) {1}