Introduction
What percentage of Pakistan’s land area is currently covered by forests?
around or less than 5%
4.7 or 4.8%
What is meant by edaphic factors?
Type of soil
2 locations where mangroves are present?
Indus delta and Hab delta
Define deforestation
It is the process of cutting down trees such that the rate of cutting is greater than the rate of growth of trees
Protection forests are called so because: (3 reasons)
1) Protect the soil - prevent soil erosion
2) Protect the environment - prevent global warming/ reduce temperature, intercept rainfall
3) Purify air - Release Oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide
Coniferous grows between which altitudes above the sea level?
1000-4000m
1 specific location where the riverain forest grows
Along the Indus River
What is urbanisation? Give 1 recent example
Converting a rural area into an urban area by developing houses and constructing transport infrastructure, for example, the University Road in Karachi, the highway, and the northern areas
The apparent features that differentiate between productive and protection forests are: 3 reasons
1) random vs. linear
2) Closed vs. open canopy
3) Different species and height vs. the same species and heights
What type of soil is present in the Indus plain?
Loamy and clayey/rich in alluvium/ alluvial soil/ fertile soil
What is the snowline, and which plants grow there?
Altitude of land above 4500 m, where no plants can grow
Define afforestation
process of planting trees in an area allocated only for forests where there was no plantation in the past
2 locations where tropical forests grow
Plains of Punjab
Plains of Sindh
Plains of Eastern and Southern Balochistan
Deforestation on the mountain slopes can be countered by? 2 ways
Terracing
Contour ploughing
The altitude at which subtropical forests grow?
0-1000 m or 500- 1000 m
2 locations where subtropical forests grow
most of balochistan
upper punjab
Which province was most affected by the floods in 2022?
Sindh