The importance of soil in forestry is/are:

Related Mcqs:

1. Agro-forestry and social forestry concept is:

   A. An inter-disciplinary approach to systems of land use
   B. It implies an awareness of interactions and feedback between man and environment
   C. Between demand and available resources in a given area
   D. Which – under certain conditions – require optimization and sustained management rather that ever-increasing exploitations
   E. All of the above

2. Removal of top soil by soil erosion result in the loss of soil:

   A. Nitrites
   B. Nitrates
   C. Nitrogen
   D. Nitric and nitrous acids

3. Geology and forestry deals with:

   A. Soil formation
   B. Geology helps to suggest forest trees
   C. Anchorage effect
   D. Root wedging
   E. All of the above

4. In water logged soil plants cannot grow properly because the soil is:

   A. Physiologically wet
   B. Physiologically dry
   C. Physically dry
   D. None of the above

5. When a plant first begins to wilts permanently in a pot, its 54.5 gms of soil has 4.5 gms of water. The PWP of this soil is:

   A. 4.50%
   B. 9%
   C. 8.25%
   D. 16.50%

6. The ration of volume of pores in the soil to the total soil volume is referred to as:

   A. Pore frequency ratio
   B. Pore density ration
   C. Pore abundance ratio
   D. Pore space ratio

7. When a soil has been thoroughly wetted and then allowed to drain until capillary movement of the water has stopped, the water content of the soil will give an estimate of it’s:

   A. Gravitational water
   B. Capillary water
   C. Field capacity
   D. Storage capacity

8. Private investment in forestry means:

   A. Encourage corporate forestry by providing easy credits, public land leasehold concessions and other facilities
   B. Consider the possibility of issuing government bonds to attract private capital for funding big forestry projects
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

9. Criteria for investment in forestry is / are:

   A. To define the objectives of the enterprise
   B. To identify constrains
   C. To set the criteria for decision
   D. To collect relevant information on all alternative course of action
   E. All of the above

10. Forest Act _______ has new been revised by the authors of Forestry Sector Master Plan:

    A. 1925
    B. 1926
    C. 1927
    D. 1938