Q80
Geography (incl. West Bengal)Soils, Natural Vegetation & Forests
A person overlying India saw the natural vegetation below in the sequential order of tropical evergreen forest, savannah, dry deciduous and deciduous. His flight was from
- a.Kolkata to Delhi.
- b.Mumbai to Bhubaneswar.
- c.Trivandrum to Delhi.
- d.Delhi to Madurai.
Answer: (C) Trivandrum to Delhi.
Flying from Trivandrum (Kerala — tropical evergreen forests) northward to Delhi (dry deciduous scrub/grassland), one would pass over progressively drier vegetation zones: tropical evergreen → moist deciduous → dry deciduous → semi-arid scrub. This north-to-south tropical-to-dry transition is best captured by C.