Question

Distinguish between the wet and dry tropical deciduous forests.

Answer 1

Hint: Tropical deciduous forests occur in regions with heavy rainfall for most of the year accompanied by a pronounced dry season. These forest formations are thick and green during the rainy summers, but become a dry landscape during the dry winters when most trees lose their leaves.

Complete answer: There are two types of Deciduous Forests:
A) Moist Deciduous Forests
B) Deciduous Dry Forests.
Difference between deciduous dry forests and deciduous moist forests:

Deciduous Dry Forests	Deciduous moist forests:
1) In the northern part of the country, dry deciduous forests are found, except in the north-eastern part. In Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, it is also located.	1) Except in the western and north-western parts of India, moist deciduous forests are present almost all over India.
2) They are present in areas where the precipitation ranges from 70 cm to 100 cm.	2) These forests occur in areas where precipitation ranges from 100 cm to 200 cm.
3) Teak, Sal, Peepal and so on are the dominant species of trees present in these forests.	3) In these forests, the dominant species of trees are Shisham, Sal, Teak, Mango, Rosewood, etc.

Usually, the climate of seasonal forests is influenced by a system called (ITCZ) located near the equator and formed by the convergence of trade winds from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Note: In the northern summer and south in the northern winter, the location of these bands changes seasonally, shifting north and eventually influencing the wet and dry seasons in the tropics. Significant warming, at an average rate of 0.26 degrees Celsius per decade, which coincides with a global rise in temperature resulting from the anthropocentric inputs of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.