2022 Forestry

Pick the correct definition of habitat structure?

• Characteristics of the natural environment such as sunlight, temperature, moisture, and wind

• Physical characteristics of the natural environment, such as how many trees there are, how tall they are, and what species they are

• The shrubs, young trees, and plants near the forest floor

• Animal or plant species that live in areas that have just had a large disturbance that removed much of the canopy, such as an extreme weather event like a windstorm or a clear-cut timber harvest

A(n) Samples water from a stream to make sure that it is safe.

• Volunteer

• Naturalist
• Ecologist

• Logger

What word matches this definition? The amount of sky obscured by the leaves and branches of the top layer of trees in the forest, measured as a percent.

• Clear cut

• Early successional

• Ground cover

• Canopy cover

The trunk of a tree is considered which of the following?

• Internode

• Bole

• Crown

• Root

Which of the following is false about cambium cells?

• Cambium cells live between wood and bark cells and are visible only with a magnifying glass

• Cambium growth widens tree trunks, limbs, and roots

• Cambium cells divide forming wood cells toward the center of the tree and bark cells toward the outside

• Cambium cells carry food made in the leaves to the twigs, branches, trunk, and roots

Which of the following is not an artificial reproductive method?

• Pruning

• Budding and Grafting

• Cuttings

• All of the above are artificial reproductive methods

Oxygenic photosynthesis occurs in the located in the plant cell and absorbs blue and red wavelengths of lights.

• Mitochondrion

• Golgi Apparatus

• Nucleus

• Chloroplast

8. Axial parenchyma cells originate from the forming a network of living cells around the tree. They transport sugars (food) to the parenchyma cells within the growth ring, and they store starch.

• Heartwood

• Cambium
• Sapwood

• Seriate

A leaf is the space or indentation between the lobes of a leaf blade.

• Sinus
• Margin

• Apex

• Midrib

Which species of wood can be used to produce ax handles?

• Sycamore

• White Birch

• Bald Cypress

• Hickory