Post : Manager
Department : Kerala Forest Development Corporation Ltd
Category Code : 492/16
Qualification : B.Sc (Forestry) Or B.Tech Forestry
Date of Test : 03-01-2018
- Kanchas and orans are local names for
- Tree and grassland management systems in arid/semi-arid parts of India
- The Kerala homegardens
- Shifting cultivation in Arunachal pradesh
- Grazing systems in central and western Himalayas
- Wheeler's pentaprism is used to measure
- Inclination
- Spread
- Branch number
- Diameter
- A mineral deficiency is likely to affect older leaves more than younger leaves if
- the mineral is very mobile within the plant
- the mineral is a micronutrient
- the mineral is required for chlorophyll synthesis
- the mineral is a macronutrient
- Holridge's climatic models are not based on
- Biotemperature
- Average annual precipitation
- Potential evapotranspiration
- Solar radiation
- National Agroforestry Policy was implemented in the year
- 2014
- 2012
- 2010
- 2011
- The reaction wood in soft woods is termed as
- Compression wood
- Tension wood
- Juvenile wood
- Ring porous wood
- If the objective of coppice crop is fuel production, then _________ is required
- Crown thinning
- Free thinning
- Mechanical thinning
- No thinning
- The first forest policy of Indian Republic was brought out in the year
- 1894
- 1952
- 1980
- 1988
- A plantation of genetically superior trees isolated to reduce cross pollination by inferior ones and managed intensively for seed production is
- Seed stand
- Seed orchard
- Provenance
- Plus stand
- Vigour test method in which the ability of germinants to overcome physical stress is evaluated by germinating the seeds under a layer of crushed brick stone gravel
- Cutting
- Grave yard
- Hiltner
- Tetrazolium
- This organism is commonly known as the teak defoliator
- Eutectona macheralis
- Hyblaea puera
- Sahyadrussus malabaricus
- Hypsipyla grandella
- The current annual increment for Ailanthus at 5 years age is 5 cu. ft and 10 years is 2.5 cu. ft. The MAI at 10 years of tree age is 3.5 cu. ft. What is the total tree volume at 10th year?
- 10 cu ft
- 25 cu ft
- 35 cu ft
- 50 cu ft
- Internal rate of return is the
- Interest rate
- Discount rate
- Bank rate
- Opportunity cost
- Usually ________ seed bearers per hectare are ratained even after all the shelterwood is removed in the case of chir in North India.
- 12-15
- 50-60
- 2-3
- 150-200
- The nursery operation to condition the nursery stock by loosening the contact between soil and root of the seedings in nursery bed is called
- Box pruning
- Lateral pruning
- Under cutting
- Wrenching
- Shigakai pods are obtained from
- Acacia concinna
- Acacia arabica
- Butea monosperma
- Caesalpinia sapan
- Pitch of a saw is
- Length of teeth
- Thickness of teeth
- Number of teeth
- Angle between teeth
- _________ woods cannot be seasoned very fast without creating defects particularly cracking and splitting.
- Highly refractory
- Moderately refractory
- Non-refractory
- Slightly refractory
- Which among the following is a strong coppicer?
- Casuarina equisetifolia
- Cedrus deodara
- Madhuca latifolia
- Tectona grandis
- Central Agroforestry Research Institute is located at
- Dehradun
- Jhansi
- Jodhpur
- Nigeria
- Agroforestry was recognized as a GHG mitigation strategy as per
- 4th assessment report of IPCC, 2007
- 3rd assessment report of IPCC, 2001
- Bali action plan
- Copenhagen summit 2009
- A very commonly used surface sterilant for explants in plant tissue culture
- NaCl
- KMNO4
- CaCl2
- HgCl2
- The geo-stationery satellite is located at a height of
- 920 km from earth
- 3600 km from earth
- 36000 km from earth
- 1100 km from earth
- The approximate cubic content of a standing teak tree with GBH 2.0 m and commercial bole height 20 m is
- 4.0 m3
- 1.5 m3
- 250 cu ft
- 2.5 m3
- The number of seedlings required for planting in 10 ha area at a spacing of 2 m between plants and 4 m between rows
- 10,000
- 12,500
- 15,000
- 20,000
- UTM is
- Universal Timber Manual
- Universal Testing Machine
- Universal Timber Methodology
- Uniform Testing Machinery
- The leaves of this tree is used for making beedi
- Nicotiana tabaccum
- Diospyros ebenum
- Diospyros melanoxylon
- Diospyros affinis
- The growth regulator required to initiate seed germination is
- Gibberellic acid
- Absicic acid
- Cytokinnin
- Ethral
- The biochemical test employed to assess seed viability is
- Formaldehyde test
- Tetrazolium test
- Ferric chloride test
- Levene's test
- Length of the lowest section is _________ in stem analysis.
- 3.0 m
- 1.37 m
- 2.74 m
- 5.0 m
- The credits obtained through Joint Implementation is known as
- Removal Units
- Emission Reduction Units
- Certified Emission Reduction
- Kyoto Protocol Units
- The land use factor (L) in shifting cultivation where permanent cultivation is reached (zero fallow phase) through improved fallow management will be
- > 10
- = 1
- < 1
- = 2
- The type of germination in which the cotyledons are forced above the ground epicotyls
- Hypogeal
- Epgigeal
- Open
- Closed
- A silvicultural system in which regeneration fellings are carried out in narrow strips extending in east-west direction and advancing from north to south is
- Bavarian Femelschag
- Two storied high forest system
- Wagner's Blendersaumschlag
- Dauerwald
- The credits obtained through Joint Implementation is known as
- Removal Units
- Certified Emission Reduction
- Emission Reduction Units
- Kyoto Protocol Units
- In a normal increment curve
- Initially CAI curve is at a higher level compared to MAI curve
- Initially MAI curve is at higher level compared to CAI curve
- Both CAI curve and MAI curve are parallel through out the growing period
- Both CAI curve and MAI curve are highly erratic through out
- The inner seed coat is known as
- Testa
- Tegmen
- Tertiary integument
- Raphe
- The seed that can be stored at low moisture content and temperature
- Orthodox seed
- Intermediate seed
- Recalcitrant seed
- Registered seed
- The conservation Reserve is declared using the provisions under the ________ section of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
- 36a
- 36b
- 36c
- 36d
- A method of thinning in which attention is concentrated on evenly spaced selected stems (called elite stems) which are retained until maturity.
- Crown thinning
- Free thinning
- Mechanical thinning
- High thinning
- Quantitative traits exhibits continuous variation as they are controlled by
- Single gene
- Oligogenes
- Polygenes
- Special genes
- A felling made with a view to assist regeneration under the shelter wood system is
- Final felling
- Secondary felling
- Clear felling
- Seeding felling
- Plants are more readily manipulated by genetic engineering than are animals because
- Plant genes do not contain introns
- More vectors are available for transferring recombinant DNA into plant cells
- A somatic plant cell can often give rise to a complete plant
- Plant cells have larger nuclei
- LULUCF is a strategy under the
- Bhopal-India Process
- Kyoto Treaty
- Montreal Process
- WTO Regime
- The most striking advantage of laser hypsometers upon conventional hypsometers is
- The strong laser beam help to clearly identify the tree tip
- They provide the results in digital units and hence accurate
- They don't require horizontal distance measurement
- They don't require slopping distance measurement
- ASCU is a
- Fungicide
- Weedicide
- Wood Preservative
- Wood paint
- Which is not true about tyloses?
- Enhances impregnation
- Often found in cell lumen
- Increase overall density
- Impart protection
- An agroforestry tree species that strongly influenced the livelihood security of people in the western arid zones of India
- Faidherbia albida
- Acacia tortilis
- Prosopis Cineraria
- Acacia nilotica
- Present tropospheric CO2 concentrations is about ________ ppm.
- 365
- 288
- 105
- 300
- The measure of the relative productive capacity of a site with respect to a particular species is known as
- Site index
- Species productivity
- Site quality
- Site productivity
- The external factor that affects seed longevity includes
- Wind velocity
- Soil moisture
- Relative humidity
- Seed size
- The sum (by numbers or volume) of all the trees growing in a forest or a specified part of it is known as
- Growing stock
- Normal growing stock
- Forest capital
- Basal area
- Which of these trees is propagated by branch cuttings?
- Teak
- Ailanthus
- Poplar
- Mahua
- In forestry Huber's formula is used to find out
- Crown shape
- Crown spread
- Volume
- Height
- Cutting the stem of a tree in order to obtain a flush of shoots, usually above the height to which the browsing animals can reach is known as
- Pruning
- Browsing
- Pollarding
- Gridling
- Identify a most suitable grass species for soil conservation in the Western Ghats region
- Eulaliopsis binata
- Chloris gayana
- Vetiveria zizanoides
- Brachiaria ruziziensis
- The interval between seeding felling and final felling in a particular area is
- regeneration interval
- secondary felling
- thinning cycle
- felling interval
- Full cell or Bethel Process is a type of
- Wood preservation technique
- Wood seasoning method
- Test of mechanical properties
- Test to find out the luminescence of wood
- Grevillea robusta belongs to the family
- Verbenaceae
- Meliaceae
- Bombacaceae
- Proteaceae
- Agar oil is extracted from
- Santalum album
- Aquilaria agallocha
- Acacia arabica
- Artocarpus hirsuta
- During the 1980's global deforestation accounted for about _______ of C emission.
- 5.5 Pg C per year
- 7.4 Pg C per year
- 26 Pg C per year
- 1.6 Pg C per year
- What is advance thinning? A thinning operation
- in which attention is concentrated on evenly spaced selected stems
- that removes inferior individuals
- that removes trees n alternate rows following some rule of thumb
- done in a regular crop in anticipation of suppression
- Climber yielding strong fibre is
- Hardwickia binata
- Bauhenia vahlii
- Quisqualis indica
- Ficus bengalensis
- Advance thinning is a thinning operation
- in which attention is concentrated on evenly spaced selected stems
- that removes inferior individuals
- that removes trees and alternate rows following some rule of thumb
- done in a regular crop in anticipation of suppression
- Water blister of teak is a
- Physiological disorder
- Mycoplasma disease
- Growth pattern influenced by climate
- Viral disease
- The potential limitation to intensive agroforestry in the humid tropics is
- PAR availability
- Moisture availability
- Heavy nutrient demand
- Crop density
- Luecaena psyllid is
- Hoplocerambyx spinicornis
- Eligma narcissus
- Hyblaea peura
- Hipsipyla robusta
- __________ is a tree species extensively used for border planting in the coastal tracts of central Kerala.
- Ailanthus triphysa
- Vatica chinensis
- Thespesia populnea
- Casuarina equisetifolia
- Pink disease in Eucalyptus is caused by
- Corticium salmonicolor
- Rhizopogon nigrescens
- Rhizotonia solani
- Phytophthora palmivora
- Primary classification of silvicultural system is based on
- Mode of regeneration
- Pattern of felling
- Locality factors
- Species composition
- Sal borer is
- Hoplocerambyx spinicornis
- Eligma narcissus
- Hyblaea peura
- Hipsipyla robusta
- The number of 25-cm (quadratic mean diameter at breast height) trees per hectare in a stand is
- Importance value index
- Reineke's stand density index
- Crown competition factor
- Wilson's percent of height
- The forgone value of the next best alternative that is not chosen or the true sacrifice incurred by the choice of a given action
- Real rate of interest
- Opportunity cost
- Shadow price
- Net present value
- Standard basal media formulations commonly used in Plant Tissue Culture
- Murashige and Skoog
- Mannitol salt agar
- Potato dextrose agar
- Agarose gel media
- Species highly suitable for afforestation in laterite soil is
- Acacia auriculiformis
- Tamarix articulata
- Acacia nilotica
- Populus deltoids
- What is podzolisation?
- A soil forming process by which igneous rocks, usually of basic composition weather in tropica climates
- A soil forming process of cool, humid climates in which leaching by organic acids remove bases and translocate sesquioxides from A horizon
- Disintegration of rocks chemically under the influence of water containing dissolved CO2
- Physical disintegration of rocks resulting in exposure of internal surfaces
- Nitrogen fixing ability of Casuarina is attributable to
- Azotobacter
- Frankia
- Rhizobium
- Azospirillum
- Marginal cost is
- Cost of total output produced
- Cost of acquiring an additional unit of input
- Cost of producing an additional unit of output
- Average cost of output
- Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) offers a mechanism for
- regulating C emissions under the Kyoto Protocol
- protecting global biodiversity under CBD
- evaluating the effects of enriched atmospheric CO2 on ecosystem processes
- predicting climate change with coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (A-O GCM)
- The Forest Conservation Act was constituted in the year
- 1970
- 1975
- 1980
- 1985
- Family planning has been initiated in India on a national scale in
- 1952
- 1954
- 1956
- 1955
- Who acts as the Chairman of Rajyasabha?
- President
- Prime Minister
- Finance Minister
- Vice President
- The first bank to introduce ATM in the world
- SBI
- Lloyds Bank
- Barclays Bank
- HSBC Bank
- The 200 metres Womens Champion in the World Athletic Championship 2017 is
- Dafne Shippers
- Mary Josey
- Tory Bovi
- Elena Thompson
- The famous Dilwara Temples is situated in
- Odisha
- Maharashtra
- Rajasthan
- Punjab
- The largest river island in India is
- Majuli
- Elephanta
- DIU
- Barren
- Which of the following is the oldest mountain range of India?
- Himalaya
- Aravalli
- Vindhya
- Satpura
- First secretary of N.S.S. was
- K. Kelappan
- Mannathu Padmanabhan
- Chattampi Swamikal
- P. K. Narayana Panikkar
- Who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2016?
- Eric Clapton
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Bob Dylan
- The period of Rolling plan in India was
- 1966-69
- 1990-92
- 1978-80
- 2000-2005
- Largest city in India in terms of population as per 2011 census
- Mumbai
- Delhi
- Bangalore
- Hyderabad
- National award for best actress in 2017 was won by
- Sobhana
- Surabhi Lakshmi
- Bhavana
- Parvathi
- Which of the following News paper was published from Thrissur as a month piece of Congress Socialist Party?
- Swadeshabhimani
- Mathrubhumi
- Prabhatam
- Kerala Kaumudi
- Which of the following is an east flowing river?
- Periyar
- Pamba
- Pambar
- Chaliyar
- The founder of All Travancore Muslim Mahajanasabha was
- Muhammad Abdurahiman
- E. Moithu Moulavi
- Pookoya Thangal
- Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
- The hills that lies at the junction of Eastern and Western and Western ghats
- Nilgiri hills
- Anamudi
- Munnar hills
- Chin hills
- The highest temperature recorded sofar in India is
- 55°C
- 51°C
- 45°C
- 48°C
- Wagon Tragedy in connection with Malabar Rebellion took place on
- 01 Dec. 1921
- 15 Nov. 1921
- 10 Nov. 1921
- 21 Nov. 1921
- Vaikkom Satyagraha ended in the year
- 1921
- 1925
- 1926
- 1924
- The founder of Cheramar Sangham was
- K. P. Karuppan
- Krishnadiyasan
- Kumaragurudeva
- Pambadi John Joseph
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