en.sc. exam review

Clearcutting means...

• specific trees are selected to be removed

• everything is cut down without any plan

• clumps of trees here and there are removed

• After planning, most trees are removed from a single area

What is prescribed burning?

• When a medicine I take makes my skin burn.
• Burning down everything in a place because they are going to put brand new stuff there.
• Something the firefighters do.
• Doing a controlled burn in a certain area to clean the forest floor and help the trees to growth.

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

The managing of resource harvesting so that resources are not depleted is called

• resource management

• monoculture

• salvage logging

• clear cutting

This results from the regrowth of trees that were mostly all cut at the same time

• even aged

• uneven aged

• monculture

• no aged

When only some of the tree in a forest are cut at once is called

• selection system

• selection Sunday

• shelterwood selection

• even aged selection

Soil is a

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

The ______________ method of timber harvesting produces a future forest that most closely resembles the original forest in terms of biodiversity.

• Clear-cutting
• Seed-tree approach
• Shelterwood approach
• Selection system

One disadvantage of the selection system of timber harvesting is that it

• produces even-aged stands.
• produces a monoculture.
• causes soil erosion.
• is more dangerous for loggers.