All Free Forestry MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Forests provide timber and firewood, which have high calorific and commercial value for construction
  • B. Forest are source of aesthetic look especially linear plantations
  • C. Forests make the microclimate more pleasant making their surroundings cooler
  • D. Forests save crops, human being, and cattle from the dangerous effects of galleys
  • E. All of the above

Explanation: Forests provide timber and fuel, improve local climate and amenity, and reduce hazards such as gully erosion that damage crops, people and…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Accelerate harvesting of mature and over mature trees in the well stocked, unexploited forests
  • B. Manage all scrub forest as rangelands for maximum sustained production of forage and soil and watershed conservation
  • C. Classify according to site conditions and manage strictly on the basis of economic returns
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Comprehensive forest management may include harvesting mature trees where stocking permits, managing scrub forests for forage and…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Accelerate amenity linear tree planting along all government roads, canals and railways
  • B. Canal side plantations are more commercial than amenity
  • C. Involve social institutions, NGOs and industries in amenity planting at public places like hospitals, schools
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Social forestry combines public amenity planting with community and private-sector participation.

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Both (a) & (b)
  • B. Provide research and technical advice for improved wood manufacturing processes
  • C. Keep all wood industry in the private sector
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A wood-based industry policy can retain industrial activity in the private sector while government supplies research and technical…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. Introduce more efficient wood burning stoves
  • B. Encourage use of reconstituted wood over solid wood
  • C. Research and develop more efficient and suitable logging technology
  • D. All of the above
  • E. Evolve technology for industrial uses of inferior and small sized woods

Explanation: Wood utilisation improves through efficient stoves, greater use of reconstituted wood, better logging methods and technologies that make…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • 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. None of these
  • D. Both (a) & (b)

Explanation: Private forestry investment may be encouraged through corporate-forestry incentives such as credit and land concessions, as well as…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. All of the above
  • B. Introduce training in high technology like genetic engineering and computer modelling
  • C. Open up training of social foresters to qualified universities
  • D. Strengthen and expand specialization in watershed, wildlife and environmental sciences

Explanation: Modern forestry training must cover watershed, wildlife and environmental sciences, emerging tools such as genetic engineering and…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Federal
  • B. All of the above
  • C. Local
  • D. Provincial

Explanation: Forestry administration operates at federal, provincial, and local levels, with responsibilities distributed according to the…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Are concerned only with harvesting activities like felling, conversion of logs or sleepers (scants)
  • B. Carriage from forest to roadside and from roadside to market
  • C. Where timber is distributed according to the shares of the government and owners in ratio 20:80 or 40:60
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Forest harvesting societies may handle felling and timber conversion, transport to markets, and distribution of timber or proceeds…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Both (a) & (b)
  • B. Azad Kashmir
  • C. Punjab
  • D. KPK

Explanation: The forest-sector public corporations referred to here are the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Forest Development Corporation and the Azad Kashmir…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. Forest policy
  • B. Five year plan
  • C. All of the above
  • D. Development Projects
  • E. Annual Development Programme (ADP)

Explanation: Forest planning and management are supported by policy documents, Five-Year Plans, annual development programmes, and individual…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Damage done by people living in the vicinity of forests during activities they perform to meet their domestic needs and to keep their body and soul together
  • B. Damage done by both local people and outsiders to derive financial benefits and acquire riches over nights
  • C. All of the above
  • D. Damage from natural causes such as fire, pests etc.

Explanation: Forest protection must address subsistence-related damage by nearby communities, profit-driven damage by local people or outsiders, and…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. All of the above
  • B. When planted over large areas, they constitute a valuable resource
  • C. A resource much superior to other bounties and blessing because not only it is renewable but also it is multipurpose one
  • D. One of the most precious gifts of God to mankind

Explanation: Trees provide spiritual, environmental and economic benefits, and forests established over large areas become renewable, multipurpose…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Productive
  • B. Both (a) & (b)
  • C. Protective
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Forests serve both productive functions, such as supplying timber and fuelwood, and protective functions, such as conserving soil and…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. Phypsiographic features of the country, conservation of soil and water, regulation of stream flow
  • B. And prevention of such calamities as floods, land sides, siltation of dams and change in the course of rivers
  • C. Both (a) & (b)
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Protective forestry covers conservation of soil and water, regulation of stream flow and protection of physiographic features, while also…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. Trees and climate
  • B. Trees and water
  • C. Trees and crop protection in arid and semi-air areas
  • D. Biological reclamation for water logged and saline soils
  • E. All of the above

Explanation: Trees influence climate and water, protect crops in arid and semi-arid areas, and help reclaim waterlogged or saline soils.

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Every one has experienced the blissful effect of trees on amelioration of climate
  • B. Both (a) & (b)
  • C. Stopping under a tree for shade or shelter, driving into a tree lined road from a desert country or turning of a wind storm into a gentle breeze in a forest are common experience
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Trees moderate local climate by providing shade, shelter and wind reduction, while tree-lined vegetation can make harsh desert conditions…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. A number of processes which influence water movement from the time it falls on the watersheds
  • B. Both (a) & (b)
  • C. It leaves the area as stream flow or returns to the atmosphere through evaporation
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Forest vegetation affects the complete water cycle on a watershed, from rainfall interception and infiltration to stream flow and return…

Correct answer: Both (a) & (b)
  • A. Rs.80,000
  • B. Rs.75,000
  • C. Rs.90,000
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The cited estimate for losses from major floods in Pakistan is Rs. 90,000 million, with flood damage also reducing food availability and…

Correct answer: Rs.90,000
  • A. 160.5
  • B. 167.75
  • C. 170.6
  • D. 175.8

Explanation: The reported annual siltation rate of Tarbela is 167.75 million cubic metres, substantially exceeding Mangla’s 48.27 million cubic metres.

Correct answer: 167.75