why does india possess a great variety of  flora? explain giving two important geographical reasons.?
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There are a number of geographical reasons why India has diverse flora.\n\na) its diverse climate ranging from tropical jungle to the Thar desert to the Himalayas and Hindu Kush - this means that the plants have a wide range of climates to adjust to;\n\nb) there are also a range of flora zones on the Himalayas as you ascend the mountains.\n\nc) there are seperate floral areas on offshore islands.\n\nd) the diverse range of ecoregions encourage floral diversity.\n\nThe ecoregions of India include:\n\nTropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests\n\n    * Andaman Islands rain forests (India)\n    * Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests (India)\n    * Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests (India, Myanmar)\n    * Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests (India)\n    * Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n    * Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India, Bangladesh)\n    * Malabar Coast moist forests (India)\n    * Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Maldives)\n    * Meghalaya subtropical forests (India)\n    * Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar)\n    * Nicobar Islands rain forests (India)\n    * North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)\n    * North Western Ghats montane rain forests (India)\n    * Orissa semi-evergreen forests (India)\n    * South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)\n    * South Western Ghats montane rain forests (India)\n    * Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests (Bangladesh, India)\n    * Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India)\n\nTropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests\n\n    * Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * Chota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * East Deccan dry evergreen forests (India)\n    * Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * Northern dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (India)\n\nTropical and subtropical coniferous forests\n\n    * Himalayan subtropical pine forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)\n    * Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar)\n\nTemperate broadleaf and mixed forests\n\n    * Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n    * Western Himalayan broadleaf forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)\n\nTemperate coniferous forests\n\n    * Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n    * Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)\n\nTropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands\n\n    * Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n\nMontane grasslands and shrublands\n\n    * Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)\n    * Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe (Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan)\n    * Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (China, India, Pakistan)\n    * Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (India, Nepal)\n\nFlooded grasslands and savannas\n\n    * Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh (India, Pakistan)\n\nDeserts and xeric shrublands\n\n    * Deccan thorn scrub forests (India)\n    * Indus Valley desert (India, Pakistan)\n    * Northwestern thorn scrub forests (India, Pakistan)\n    * Thar desert (India, Pakistan)\n\nMangrove\n\n    * Godavari-Krishna mangroves (India)\n    * Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves (Pakistan)\n    * Myanmar coast mangroves (India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand)\n    * Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh, India)
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Diversity of environment, also called biodiversity, relates to the number of different species of flora and fauna in the environment. Biodiversity is important not because more species looks pretty, but because more biodiversity is healthier for the ecosystem, specifically the food chain. Consider a simple food chain that includes grass, rabbits, and coyotes. If all the rabbits die from disease, the coyotes are hopeless. But if there were more biodiversity, coyotes may also rely on raccoons for food. Forests have good biodiversity, especially the tropical rain forests around the world.
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1.  Indias population is about 3 times larger than the United States, however its total land area is about 3 times smaller...\n\n2.  The primary religion is Hindu...\n\nguess I only know 2....
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The reason for it is as follows-\n1-Shape of the tree is the climatic and altitudinal adaptation to a said geographical and geological location.\n2-These adaptation are the result of evolutionary consequence of millions of years-survival of the fittest and resulting into origin of a new species.\n3-This is controlled by morphogenesis genes and their enzyme and hormone mediated regulatory mechanism.\n4-Plant tend to acquire shape of minimum area and maximum energy at the location in question, resulting by making it's position more stable in the ecosystem or habitat.
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1.) the species existed for a short span of geologic time - this is important because it makes it easier to identify certain strata. If they existed for longer periods of time then it would be harder to correlate rocks found in different places. It's like when you find it you say I KNOW this is definitely from ___ period.\n\n2.) they existed worldwide or over a very large area - in order to correlate the geologic age of rocks from continent to continent or across continents it is important that these specie exist all over the world.
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The gold and diamond bearing Earth of Africa influences trade also its Northern fruitful savanahs are a reason its great population of animals and beasts also attract zoos. A bounty for smugglers and hunters is Africa. It is also rich in oil, herbal medicines snd vegetation. Logging also occurs there
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They are geologically separated by a tectonic plate boundary. The fact that it runs across land and is on sight one continuous land mass is not an issue.\nIt's the same as India being referred to as the Sub-continent. India is very firmly attached to Asia but again it sits on a separate plate and is not actually part of Asia even if it is moving towards it thereby creating the greatest mountain range in the world.
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Many parts of plants are used to make medicines.  It's usually because that plant evolved to deal with disease or hazardous conditions.
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Climate in India\n\nThe Himalayas isolate South Asia from the rest of Asia. South of these mountains, the climate, like the terrain, is highly diverse, but some geographers give it an overall, one-word characterization--violent. What geographers have in mind is the abruptness of change and the intensity of effect when change occurs--the onset of the monsoon rains, sudden flooding, rapid erosion, extremes of temperature, tropical storms, and unpredictable fluctuations in rainfall. Broadly speaking, agriculture in India is constantly challenged by weather uncertainty.\n\nIndian seasons : It is possible to identify seasons, although these do not occur uniformly throughout South Asia. The Indian Meteorological Service divides the year into four seasons: the relatively dry, cool winter from December through February; the dry, hot summer from March through May; the southwest monsoon from June through September when the predominating southwest maritime winds bring rains to most of the country; and the northeast, or retreating, monsoon of October and November.\n\nThe southwest monsoon blows in from sea to land. The southwest monsoon usually breaks on the west coast early in June and reaches most of South Asia by the first week in July (see fig. 6). Because of the critical importance of monsoon rainfall to agricultural production, predictions of the monsoon's arrival date are eagerly watched by government planners and agronomists who need to determine the optimal dates for plantings.\n\nTheories about why monsoons occur vary. Conventionally, scientists have attributed monsoons to thermal changes in the Asian landmass. Contemporary theory cites other factors--the barrier of the Himalayas and the sun's northward tilt (which shifts the jet stream north). The hot air that rises over South Asia during April and May creates low-pressure areas into which the cooler, moisture-bearing winds from the Indian Ocean flow.These circumstances set off a rush of moisture-rich air from the southern seas over South Asia.\n\nThe southwest monsoon occurs in two branches. After breaking on the southern part of the Peninsula in early June, the branch known as the Arabian Sea monsoon reaches Bombay around June 10, and it has settled over most of South Asia by late June, bringing cooler but more humid weather. The other branch, known as the Bay of Bengal monsoon, moves northward in the Bay of Bengal and spreads over most of Assam by the first week of June. On encountering the barrier of the Great Himalayan Range, it is deflected westward along the Indo-Gangetic Plain toward New Delhi. Thereafter the two branches merge as a single current bringing rains to the remaining parts of North India in July.\n\nClimate India - The withdrawal of the monsoon is a far more gradual process than its onset. It usually withdraws from northwest India by the beginning of October and from the remaining parts of the country by the end of November. During this period, the northeast winds contribute to the formation of the northeast monsoon over the southern half of the Peninsula in October. It is also known as the retreating monsoon because it follows in the wake of the southwest monsoon. The states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala receive most of their rainfall from the northeast monsoon during November and December. However, 80 percent of the country receives most of its rainfall from the southwest monsoon from June to September.\n\nSouth Asia is subject to a wide range of climates--from the subfreezing Himalayan winters to the tropical climate of the Coromandel Coast and from the damp, rainy climate in the states of Assam and West Bengal to the arid Great Indian Desert. Based on precipitation and temperature, experts define seven climatic regions: the Himalayas, Assam and West Bengal, the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Western Ghats and coast, the Deccan (the interior of the Peninsula south of the Narmada River), and the Eastern Ghats and coast (see fig. 7).\n\nIn the Hima
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India is one of the most exotic places in the world that offers such a rich and ancient history, culture, music, art, religion and traditions.\n\nIndia gained its independence from the British rule in 1947 and is a fairly "young" republic. But with a population of over a billion people today, the country is plagued with poverty that seems insurmountable due to the corruption in government that remains unchecked, a lackluster economy, and perhaps an aftermath of their customary caste system.\n\nThere has been on-going border tension between India [majority Hindus] and its neighbor, Pakistan [majority Muslims] in that sub-continent part in Asia.\n\nOne thing I admire among its people is their manner of greeting each other--with both palms together in prayer form as they nod to greet--which symbolizes their 'RESPECT TO THE DEITY WITHIN' the other person. Ain't that so great?\n\nMore people should practice that tradition openly... And perhaps we will have a much better world to live in!
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Western slopes of the western ghats in India; \n\n1)Receive plenty of rains in the rainy season.\n\n2) The climate is hot and humid almost through out the year.\n\n3) It is located in the sub tropical area.\n\n All these are conducive for Evergreen Forest.
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Biodiversity has contributed in many ways to the development of human culture, and, in turn, human communities have played a major role in shaping the diversity of nature at the genetic, species, and ecological levels.\n\nBiodiversity is what underlies many important ecological goods and services that provide benefits to humans.\n\nI have taken this straight from Wikipedia, there is much more useful information on the benefits of biodiversity to man at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity#Benefits_of_biodiversity
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They are homes to millions of species of plants and animals.  They help keep the equilibrium of our planet constant.
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All countries have food grain stock ..... India having a 1 billion population this appears to be particularly large. This help tide the country during famines and droughts and India has been able to use it successfully for flood relief Tsunami  etc though some of the poor people still go without food :-(
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Climate balance is one big reason, but there are others. \n\nForests are part of oxygen and carbon dioxide balance, because they absorb net carbon dioxide and produce net oxygen.  Also, they increase water evaporation which increases cloud cover (which tends, amongst a whole bunch of complex effects, to reduce global temperatures by reflecting sunlight) and produces rainfall.\n\nNorth Eastern Brazil is regularly in a state of drought-stricken poverty.   The deforestation of the Amazon basin to the West may be partly to blame.\n\nForests encourage a very wide range of species to exist.   Biodiversity might be a positive benefit to climate balance, because the huge range of biological activities that the different species engage in makes it more likely that stabilising feedback loops will emerge and be robust.\n\nEvolution is very intense in tropical forests in particular, and that makes those areas more likely to produce unusual chemicals.  That's why people hunt rainforests for plants with which to make new drugs.\n\nForests stabilise soil and slow down rainwater, preventing downstream erosion and soil depletion and benefiting agriculture.\n\nFinally, life is sh*t when there are no trees.
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INDIA is the biggest and oldest democratic country because..\nwe are  highly populated than any onther democratic country...\nseveral languages,people with different casts,living style...everything is different but we are still unity in diversity
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China and India have large populations because of five  main factors:\n\n1) They are big. It might seem obvious, but we shouldn't overlook it. China and India have huge land surfaces. More land means you can have more people. You can appreciate the importance of that point when you realise that China and India aren't the most DENSELY populated nations on Earth. Taiwan, Monaco, Bangladesh and many other nations are cram far more people into every square mile. But those two nations are physically big so even a moderate population density translates into a massive population.\n\n2) They are primarily tropical and subtropical. This often surprises many people, who don’t think of China as a tropical nation, but around 30% of its landmass lies in the tropics. Tropical regions are inherently more productive because they receive more sunlight and are warm enough for plants to grow all year round. That means that tropical nations can produce around 5 times more food than equivalent temperate regions and subtropical regions around 3 times as much. More food allows a nation to feed more people, and thus sustain larger populations.\n\n3) They contain a lot of productive land. Both nations have an abundance of fertile land, an abundance of rainfall and an abundance of rivers for irrigation. Compare this to Australia, which is also a massive tropical nation yet has a tiny population. Most of Australia is desert that can’t support agriculture, and most of what isn’t desert is only suitable for grazing cattle and sheep. The tiny amount of land that has sufficient water for growing crops is infertile.  In contrast most of India and China can sustain agriculture, and most of the agricultural land can support crops.  They have high rainfall and plenty of rivers, and thanks to the Himalayas and Mongolian plateau there is plenty of erodable material to provide fertile river valleys. Lots of productive land means lots of food which allows more people to be supported.\n\n4) They are ancient cultures that have never been destroyed. Both nations have been civilized for the last 8, 000 years at least. That means that the people have already largely perfected agriculture and their culture has attuned itself to that lifestyle,  the eland has already been cleared and the infrastructure established to maintain the nation. Compare that to nations like Brazil or Mexico that, while they are also large and potentially productive tropical nations but where civilization recently for most of the country and where the indigenous culture was demolished. Those countries are starting from scratch and need to clear land, build roads and canals and even develop an appropriate culture for their environment. That limits the productivity of the land and thus the population. However Brazil is expected to surpass Chin in population size within the next 5 generations.\n\n\n5) They have low standards of living. That means limited access to education, limited health care, limited career prospects. Under those circumstances people will always have more children because so many children die, and because there is no advantage to having just a few children. That means that the population growth is always near maximum. Compare that to a developed nations like the US where it is rare for a child to die and where a child has better prospects of getting a good education and a good job if they have fewer siblings. As standards of living rise so people have fewer children. At this stage the SOL for most of India and China are so low that people are still having as many children as possible. \n\n\nWhenever you get a big, tropical underdeveloped nation with a lot of agricultural you are going to get huge populations just because the people can.  Brazil is well on its way to becoming the next China or India because it has precisely the same factors applying to it. The only reason it isn’t already huge is because the population and culture were decimated just a few centuries