General Knowledge Practice

Crown

• The part of a tree or woody plant bearing live branches and foliage.

• A pronounced localized swelling of modified structure which occurs on plants usually as the result of the irritation or stimulus by another organism.

• The part of a tree or woody plant bearing live branches and foliage.

• To cut limbs from trees, whether standing, felled, or fallen.

Describes the conditions and results to be garnered from a control burn.

• Burning Prescription

• Controlled Burning

• Crown Fire

• Fire Break

Herbicide

• Plant and animal residues of the duff which is in varying stages of decomposition

• organic materials on upper layer of the duff

• A chemical used for killing or controlling the growth of plants.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Science of measurement of volume and growth and development of individual trees and stands and of the products they produce.

• silviculture

• Mensuration

• Dendrology

• Ecology

Intermediate Cuts

• Harvest of trees made before a final harvest.

• To cut logs into specific lengths.

• To cut limbs from trees, whether standing, felled, or fallen.

• a)  To cut and deliver logs aka logging. b)  Tree segments, cut to length and suitable for lumber.  

Growing tissue, produces xylem and phloem, that is part of the inner bark.

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Sapwood

• Cambium

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Survey of forest lands to locate and estimate volume and grades of standing timber.

• Cunit

• Cruise

• Mensuration

• Scale

A woody perennial with a multiple branching stem.

• Sapling

• Seedling

• Shrub

• Tree

Uneven-Aged Management

• Applied to a stand where relatively small age differences exist between individual trees.  The maximum age difference is usually 10 to 20 years.

• Area in which the entire timber stand has been cut.

• Classification of a stand of trees based on when regeneration started.

• Management of a stand where different age classes are maintained.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Establishment of a forest or stand in an area not previously forested.

• Afforestation

• All-Aged

• Deforestation

• Maturity