Asia- Vegetation,Wildlife and Climate

Question 1

Areas located away from seas and oceans experience-

Answer 1

Extreme climatic conditions

Question 2

Tundra Region

Answer 2

• Long cold winters, short cool summers
  -Covered with snow for majority of time
  -The northern coast of Asia

Question 3

Taiga

Answer 3

-cold winters, warm summers.
-Central Siberia

Question 4

Temperate

Answer 4

• Warm summers, cool winters
  -Summer is rainfall and winter is snowfall
  -North east asia
  -Korea, MOngolia, Russian Siberia

Question 5

Monsoon

Answer 5

-Definite dry season, definite wet season.
COOLER SEASON IS WARM AND WARMER SEASON IS Wet

Question 6

Equatorial

Answer 6

• High, seasonally well distributed rainfall except in location where seasonal shifting of the trade winds leave spme [arts of the year reletively drier.
  -Sri lanka, Malasyia and Phillipines.

Question 7

Desert region

Answer 7

• Low rainfall and extreme temperatures.
  -Central asia, Saudi arabia,Iran and N-W India. Gobi and Taklamakan lie outside tropics.

Question 8

Temperate grasslands(steppes.)

Answer 8

Cold winters
- Warm summers
-North of deserts.
-Short grass
- Antelope and deer.

Question 9

Mediterranean region

Answer 9

–Hot dry summers
- Cool wet winters
- Turkey, Lebanon, Syria.
-Summers are really dry.

Question 10

Tundra is Russian word which means

Answer 10

Marshy plain

Question 11

Arctic Tundra is in the

Answer 11

North Pole

Question 12

Alpine tundra is?

Answer 12

Alpine Tundra is the vegetation prevalent at the top of tall coal mountains such as Mount Everest

Question 13

Animals found in Tundra

Answer 13

-rctic foxes
- Raindeer
-Polar Bears

Question 14

Tundra is a region with-

Answer 14

cold treeless planes with permanently frozen subsoil

Question 15

Flora in Tundra

Answer 15

Lichens Mosses sedges and some grasses may occupy more favourable locations

Question 16

what happens in the summer in the Tundra

Answer 16

snow melts box and Shallow lakes are formed. insects swarm around the bogs and millions of migratory birds to come to feed on them.

Question 17

Taiga vegetation location

Answer 17

Taiga vegetation begins from Siberia and continues to the northern part of Japan

Question 18

Taiga trees

Answer 18

trees in this region have
-needle like leaves
-deep roots
-thickbark
-and they bear seeds in cones

Question 19

Animals in Taiga

Answer 19

Polar fox
Bear
Squirrel
Lynx

Question 20

Decidious vegetation spreads from

Answer 20

Korea
China
Japan
Russia

Question 21

Vegetation in Decidous

Answer 21

-Camellia
-Magnolia
-Camphor
-Beech

Question 22

Animals in Decidous

Answer 22

-Monkeys, Foxes and parrots and peacock

Question 23

Tropical Decidous

Answer 23

trees of this region experience along dry season followed by a season of heavy rainfall the usually shed their leaves during the dry season start going leaves again at the start of the rainy season

Question 24

Trees in tropical decidous

Answer 24

Teak, Sal and Shisham

Question 25

Animals

Answer 25

Elephants, monkeys, bears , deers tigers and leopards

Question 26

Desert Vegetiation

Answer 26

Arabian Penninsula, Tibet and Mongolia

Question 27

Plants in the desert

Answer 27

Sparse
Moistue combating
Waxy
Deep rooted
thorny
sporadic stunted trees

Question 28

Animals in the desert

Answer 28

Camels, Horses , Mules and lizards

Question 29

Equatorial Rainforest is found in

Answer 29

Malasyia, Indonasia and southern Philippines.

Question 30

Characteristic features of vegetation in EquatoriAL Rainforest

Answer 30

• Dense hardwood with broad leaves
  -Mahogany, ebony, rubber and rosewood

Question 31

Sunlight in equatorial rainforest

Answer 31

Very little as the leaves act as a canopy

Question 32

What is a canopy

Answer 32

A roof like projecttion

Question 33

Animals in equatorial rainforest

Answer 33

Monkeys,
Apes
Reptiles like lizards, snake etc
Birds