Q1. Which type of forests are found on the western slopes of the Western Ghats?
Explanation
The western slopes of the Western Ghats receive heavy rainfall from the south-west monsoon, so tropical evergreen forests occur there. These forests remain green through the year and have dense, multi-layered vegetation. Alpine forests belong to high mountain regions such as the Himalayas. Savanna is a grassland-with-scattered-trees formation, not the humid windward Ghats. Monsoon forests are deciduous and occur where rainfall is seasonal and comparatively lower than in the wet western slopes.
