APES 5.2 Lesson

Multiple Choice

Clearcutting is

• A timber harvesting practice where all trees larger than 20 feet tall are cut harvested.

• When logging companies plant new saplings in an area bigger than 1 hectare.

• A timber harvesting practice where all of the trees in a given area are harvested at the same time.

• When forestry services clear out the underbrush in a given area.

Multiple Choice

This type of forest removal is the most profitable

• Clearcutting

• Shelterwood

• Selective cutting

Match

Match the following

• Cutting down EVERY tree in an area in as efficiently and quickly as possible

• Cutting strips of trees that are between strips of untouched trees. Usually on the side of a mountain.

• Cutting down ONLY selected trees (based on height, age, etc.) either singly or in small groups.

Clear-cutting

Strip-cutting

Selective-Cutting

• Clear-cutting

• Strip-cutting

• Selective-Cutting

Reorder

Reorder the forests by which have the most biodiversity (1) and the least biodiversity (3)

• Old-Growth Forests

• Secondary Growth Forests

• Tree Farms

1

2

3

• 1
• 2
• 3

Multiple Select

ECOLOGICAL values for forests include

• prevent soil erosion

• medicinal plants

• provide lumber

• store carbon and release oxygen