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Which of the following forests are found along the Western side of the Western Ghats ?
Answer: A
The western side of the Western Ghats carries tropical evergreen forests.
The windward western slopes of the Western Ghats face the south-west monsoon and receive more than 200 cm of rain a year, with only a short dry season. That supports dense, tall, multi-layered tropical evergreen forest, with trees such as rosewood, mahogany and ebony.
On the leeward eastern side, in the rain shadow, the rainfall falls away, and the forests change to semi-evergreen, then moist deciduous and finally dry deciduous types further east. Those are the vegetation of the drier slopes and the plateau, not of the wet western face.
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