FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM
Questions and Answers based on NCERT Chapter
Q1: What is deforestation?
Answer: Deforestation is cutting down of trees indiscriminately in a forest area. Under the colonial rule it became very systematic and extensive.
Q2: Who were the colonial power in Indonesia?
Answer: Dutch
Q3: Why is deforestation considered harmful?
Answer: Forests give us many things like paper, wood that makes our desks, tables, doors and windows, dyes that colour our clothes, spices in our food, gum, honey, coffee, tea and rubber. They are the natural habitat of animals and birds. Forests check soil erosion and denudation, sand dunes. They preserve our ecological diversity and life support systems.
Cutting down forest extensive will deprive us the above said benefits. Thus deforestation is considered harmful.
Q4: Who were ‘Kalangs’ of Java?
Answer: They were skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators