The document discusses different types of forests found around the world. It begins by defining what a forest is and notes that India ranks 10th globally in forest cover. It then describes several forest types found in India, including deciduous forests which shed leaves seasonally, evergreen forests with year-round foliage, and mangrove forests in coastal regions. The document also covers conservation efforts like afforestation and preventing activities that cause soil erosion or forest fires. In closing, it categorizes forests based on rainfall into deciduous, evergreen, mangrove, thorn, subtropical, and coniferous types.

2.  What is forest?
 Indian forest
 India’s rank in world forest
 Conservation of forest
 Classification of forest
 Deciduous forest
 Evergreen forest
 Mangrove forest
 Thorn forest
 Sub tropical forest
 Coniferous Forest

3.  The forest is a complex eco system
consisting mainly of trees that buffer the
earth and support a myriad of life forms.
 It is also the community of trees, shrubs,
herbs, and associated plants and
organisms that cover a considerable
area that use oxygen, water and soil
nutrients as the community attains
maturity and reproduces itself.

4.  The forest in India are ancient in nature and
composition. Each Indian forest are rich in
variety and shelter a wide range of fauna,
avi-fauna and insects. The fact that they
have existed for very long time is proved
from the ancient texts all of which have
some mention of the forests. The people
revered forests in India and a large number
of religious ceremonies centred on trees
and plants. Even today in parts of India the
sacred groves exist and are worshipped.

5.  India rank’s 10th in the list of most
forested nations in the world with 76.87
million hectares of forest and tree cover.
 India’s forest cover accounts for about
23.44% of the total geographical area of
the country.
 With nearly 173,000 villages classified as
forest fringe villages, there is obviously

6. CONSERVATION
OF FOREST

8.  Massive afforestation work should be
undertaken to cover large areas of land
with useful plants.
for example: they are planted along the
highways and rivers, around the
playgrounds and parks.

9. What is the common thing between
these examples ?
The common thing is that the trees are
planted in a place which are unfit for
the agriculture.

11. 

13. Forest fire should be
prevented. Huge forest areas
are destroyed by fire every
year. Fire may caused due to
carelessness of the people or
by natural methods. People
should avoid smoking and
cooking in the forest areas.

15. •Overgrazing by cattle, horses,
sheep's and goats should be
prevented.

16. What is soil erosion?
Gradually wear away of soil is called soil
erosion.

17. All activities leading to soil
erosion should be controlled.

18. Forest must be
protected from
insects and pest. The
infected plants should
be removed or
treated with suitable
pesticides.

19. Air water and soil pollution
should be reduced so that the
trees and other vegetarian
can survive and develop in the
forest.

20. The types of forests depends on total
amount of rainfall received.
Forests can be classified into the following
types:
 Deciduous forests
 Ever green forests
 Mangrove forests
 Thorn forests
 Sub tropical forests
 Coniferous forests

21.  Deciduous means "falling off at maturity or "tending
to fall off", and it is typically used in order to refer
to trees or shurbs that lose their leaves seasonally
(most commonly during Autumn) and to the shedding
of other plant structures such as petals after
flowering or fruit when ripe. In a more general sense,
deciduous means "the dropping of a part that is no
longer needed" or "falling away after its purpose is
finished". In plants it is the result of natural
processes

22.  An evergreen forest is a forest consisting
entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that
retain green foliage all year round. Such
forests reign the tropics primarily as
broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate
and boreal latitudes primarily as
coniferous evergreens.

23.  Mangroves are various large and extensive
types of trees up to medium height and
shrubs that grow in saline coastal
sediment habitats in the tropics and
subtropics – mainly between latitude
25° N and 25° S. The remaining mangrove
forest areas of the world in 2000 was
53,190 square miles (137,760 km²)
spanning 118 countries and territories.

24.  A thorn forest is a dense, scrub like
vegetation characteristic of dry subtropical
and warm temperate areas with a seasonal
rainfall averaging 250 to 500 mm (9.8 to
19.7 in). In South America, thorn forest is
sometimes called Caatinga and consists
primarily of small, thorny trees that shed
their leaves seasonally. Trees typically do not
exceed 10 meters (33 ft) in height, usually
averaging between 7 and 8 meters (23 and
26 ft) tall.

25.  Tall stands of Subtropical Rainforest occur
from the cooler uplands of northern
Queensland to the lowlands of the New
South Wales coast. They are best developed
in environments with both fertile soils and
high rainfall. Because they share many
species and characteristics in common, there
is no clear-cut boundary between Tropical
and Subtropical Rainforests. In general, the
latter community has less of everything that
is typically found in Tropical Rainforests

26. Coniferous forest, vegetation composed
primarily of cone-bearing, needle-leaved, or
scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in
regions of the world that have long winters
and moderate to high annual precipitation.
The northern Eurasian coniferous forest is
called the taiga, or the boreal forest. Both
terms are used to describe the entire
circumpolar coniferous forest with its many
lakes, bogs, and rivers. Coniferous forests
also cover mountains in many parts of the
world. Pines, spruces, firs, and larches are
the dominant trees in coniferous forests

29.  We would like to express our special
thanks of gratitude to our teacher
Mrs.Meenakshi Bhatia mam who gave
us the opportunity to do this wonderful
project on the topic forest which helped
all of us to know new things about
forest.