Question

Which is referred to as lungs of planet earth?
A. Western ghats
B. Lake victoria
C. Greenland
D. Amazon rainforest
E. Himalayas

Answer 1

Hint:Lungs here symbolically refers to breathing means that include exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide gases. These are located in a vast area and in South america. It provides habitat to a variety of animals and plants.

Complete answer:
Western ghats-
These are forest areas of India located in 6 states.
The States are Maharashtra, Gujarat,kerala, karnataka, goa, tamil nadu.
They are known by different names in different states like sahyadri in maharashtra , nilgiri in karnataka and tamil nadu and anaimalai in kerala.
Lake victoria
It is one of Africa's great lakes. It is the Main source of the river white nile.It covers countries like burundi,rwanda, kenya tanzania and uganda. It is the world's largest tropical lake.
It is also the world's 2nd largest freshwater lake.
Greenland-
It is the world's largest island located between the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean. It is An autonomous territory within the kingdom of denmark. It is physically associated with North America but culturally associated with europe. It is the least densely populated region of the world.
Nearly a third of the people live in the capital nuuk. The World’s largest and northernmost national park is here- northeast greenland National park.
Amazon rainforest-
Amazonia or amazon is a moist tropical rainforest. It covers most of the amazon basin in the continent of south america. The largest cover is in brazil. 60 % forest cover. In total it covers 9 countries of South america. More than 300 lakhs people live here with different ethnicity. These are regarded as the lungs of our earth because they produce around 6-9% ( not 20% as depicted in social media .This is highly overestimated).
Himalayas –
This is one of the youngest mountain ranges. It separates indian subcontinent from Tibetan plateau.
This is the home to the mightiest Everest, the highest peak in the world. Out of 14 8000 mts mountains in world 10 are in himalayas only. Himalayas covers countries like china Nepal india bhutan and Pakistan

Option A is not correct as western ghats are not that vast to give a large amount of oxygen.
Option B is also not correct because lake victoria does not have enough oxygen.
Option C Green land is also wrong because this is mostly covered in ice hence cant produce oxygen.
Option D Amazon is the right answer
Option E Himalayas is the wrong answer as it is a mountain range .

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note:Recently it has been confirmed that the height of Everest has increased now it is 8848.86 metres.
Amazon forest has seen more than 40000 fires in 2019.
The greenland was whole green and not covered in ice in the 900s.