Resource Management and Forestry

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.

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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

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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.

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What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat

• increased green house gasses 

• soil erosion and flooding

• all of the above

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

• even aged

• uneven aged

• monculture

• no aged

The result from the regrowth of trees that were not all cut at the same time is called

• even aged

• uneven aged

• same aged

• different aged

The harvesting of timber where small numbers of mature and healthy seed-producing trees are left standing so that they can reseed the logged area

• seed tree approach

• uneven planting

• even planting

• classic tree approach

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

• selection system

• selection Sunday

• shelterwood selection

• even aged selection

The clearing of a forest and the replacement of that forest by some other land use such as agriculture or residential is called

• reforestation

• prescribed burn

• salvage reforestation

• deforestation

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A forest that has never been logged is called an

• old growth forest

• new growth forest

• never been touched forest

• really old forest