Question

At what height in the Himalayas are Taiga forests located?
(A) 1000 - 1500 m
(B) 2000 - 3000 m
(C ) 500 - 1000 m
(D) 1000 - 1200 m

Answer 1

There are mostly two types of tropical forests present in the Himalayas-tropical rainforests and tropical deciduous forests. The tropical rainforests are dense, evergreen, rainy and close to the Amazon basin forests and other equatorial regions.

Complete Answer:
The taiga, also known as the boreal forest zone, covers around 17% of the surface area of the Earth in the far northern hemisphere's circumpolar belt. Taiga is mainly distinguished by a small number of species of conifer. These trees reach the highest latitudes on earth of any trees. Taiga plants and animals are adapted to long days of short growing seasons, which range from cold to warm. Taiga is located over an altitude of 5300 ft (1000-1500 m) mostly on the Himalayan and Nilgiri mountains.

Additional Information:
The Taiga forests are present in the northern hemisphere in a region between temperate deciduous forests to the south and the tundra to the north. Plants have to respond to a lack of sunshine and not enough nutrients for a long duration of the year. Trees have needle-shaped leaves. With a small surface area, these leaves do not lose much water through the tiny pores (or holes) in their skin. The branches slope, giving the trees a conical shape, to allow them to shed snow that would otherwise break them.

So the answer is option A.

Note: Brown bears are present in taiga forests throughout North America and thousands of miles south in Asia. Taiga forests have vast oceans that were once connected by a land bridge between them. This allowed animals to migrate through this biome, such as bears and other mammals and set up homes as far east and west as they could go.