Question

What is the other name of tropical deciduous forests?
A) Monsoon forests
B) Temperature deciduous forests
C) Tropical rainforests
D) None of these

Answer 1

Hint: Tropical deciduous forest occurs in the regions with heavy rainfall for a portion of the year followed by a dry season. These forest formations are lush and dense during the wet summers, but become dry landscape during dry winters when most of the trees shed their leaves.

Complete answer:
The word tropical implies that these forests are found in the tropical region of a country, and deciduous means trees and plants that shed their leaves each year.
The tropical deciduous forests are also known as Monsoon forests since the trees in these types of forests shed their leaves during the dry season. Also, these forest areas are very prone to regular heavy rainfall. Most of the extensive tropical forests lie between the range of Tropics of Capricorn and Tropics of Cancer and thus are very humid. The tropical deciduous forests usually thrive in a moderately heated temperature of thirty-degree Celsius. These forests mostly lie in countries like Central America, South Africa, and India.
They do have enough moisture to grow shrubs and plants, even though these areas are continually heated. Usually, these forests are dense and packed, and they often exhibit a visible seasonal change. The deciduous forests lose their leaves around the end of autumn and at the beginning of winter.
So, the correct answer is Option D.

Note: Based on the humidity factors and availability of water, tropical Deciduous Forests can be branched into two categories. They are Moist Deciduous Forests – Mixture of Grasses and Trees and the Dry Deciduous Forest. India is a tropical country, and hence most of its areas in green are tropical deciduous forests.