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WorksheetsIntroduction To Forestry - Regions and Tree Growth
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
This is the layer of the forest where most of the leaves of the trees are located.
understorey
forest floor
canopy
The upper portion of the tree where most of the large branches and leaves are found is called:
crown
trunk
twig
branch
What percentage of land area in Canada is covered with forests?
1/2
1/4
1/3
1/8
Which forest region do we live in?
Deciduous Forest
Great Lakes St. Lawrence
Hudson Bay Lowlands
Boreal Forest
This forest region is the largest one in Ontario and has mainly coniferous trees and is home to moose and black bear.
Great Lakes St Lawrence
Boreal
Deciduous
Hudson Bay Lowlands
This forest region has been largely cleared due to a dense human population. It is the smallest of Ontairo's regions, however, it is the most threatened.
Deciduous
Hudson Bay Lowlands
Boreal
Great Lakes St Lawrence
This tree has a harder wood, and produces seeds in fruit and not in cones.
Deciduous
Broad leaf
Coniferous
Evergreen
Old inactive cells that give the tree strength (inactive xylem cells)
Heartwood
Sapwood
Cambium
Inner Bark
Tissue that carries food from the leaves to the rest of the tree. It is made of phloem cells.
Heartwood
Cambium
Sapwood
Inner Bark
Where is the first year of growth of a tree?
The very centre of the tree.
The annual ring just before the bark..
Water is conducted through this tissue from the roots to the branches and the leaves. It is made of functional xylem cells.
Cambium
Outer bark
Sapwood
Heartwood
When a small section of annual rings are closer together this can be an indication that:
An insect infestation impacted the area.
Rainfall and temperature conditions were ideal during these years.
Trees in the area have been recently harvested.
Another tree was leaning on the growing tree.
If annual rings are wider on one side than the other this is an indication that:
Trees in the area were recently harvested.
Another tree was leaning on the tree while it was growing.
A forest fire hit the area.
The tree was in high competition for nutrients.
The dark scar just outside the heartwood of this tree is an indication that:
trees were harvested around the tree while it was growing
an insect infestation hit the area
the woodlot experienced a forest fire
a deer was munching on the branches
What is the name of the instrument the forester in this video is using?
tree cutter
core sampler
tree corer
increment borer
