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Forests Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a living, complexly interrelated community of trees, associated plants and animals?

a)

tree farm

b)

forest

c)

native forest

d)

old-growth forest

2.

What is an area planted to selected and improved tree species?

a)

tree farm

b)

forest

c)

native forest

d)

old-growth forest

3.

What are three important benefits of forests?

4 lines
4.

What is the main stem called?

a)

bole

b)

hardening-off

c)

mycorrhizae

d)

photoperiod

5.

What is soil fungi that enable trees to more fully utilize water, minerals, and nitrogen in the soil called?

a)

bole

b)

hardening-off

c)

mycorrhizae

d)

photoperiod

6.

What is another word for day length?

a)

bole

b)

hardening-off

c)

mycorrhizae

d)

photoperiod

7.

What is a change to tolerate environmental conditions called?

a)

bole

b)

hardening-off

c)

mycorrhizae

d)

photoperiod

8.

What is hardiness?

4 lines
9.

What is an ecosystem?

4 lines
10.

A thin sheet of wood.

a)

piling

b)

pulpwood

c)

timberland

d)

veneer

11.

Round timber driving into the ground to support other structures.

a)

piling

b)

pulpwood

c)

timberland

d)

veneer

12.

Forest land capable of producing in excess of 20 cubic feet per acre per year and not restricted from harvest.

a)

piling

b)

pulpwood

c)

timberland

d)

veneer

13.

Wood cut or prepared for manufacture into paper products.

a)

piling

b)

pulpwood

c)

timberland

d)

veneer

14.

List three benefits of urban forestry.

4 lines
15.

What two things did the government want to influence by providing federal dollars to maintain our nation's forests?

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16.

Winds created by a forest fire.

a)

crown fires

b)

ground fires

c)

prescribed fires

d)

updraft

17.

These fires burn from top to top of trees or shrubs, sometimes independently of other fires.

a)

crown fires

b)

ground fires

c)

prescribed fires

d)

updraft

18.

A managed, intentional fire set by humans for a specific reason.

a)

crown fires

b)

ground fires

c)

prescribed fires

d)

updraft

19.

These fires burn the organic materials beneath the surface litter of the forest floor.

a)

crown fires

b)

ground fires

c)

prescribed fires

d)

updraft

20.

What direction do fires typically move on a slope?

a)

up

b)

down

c)

left

d)

right

21.

What is the main natural cause of forest fires?

4 lines
22.

What three things make up the fire triangle?

4 lines
23.

Pieces of branches, usually 8-12 inches in length, cut from a tree to be used in reproduction.

a)

heel-in

b)

cuttings

c)

wild seedlings

d)

direct seeding

24.

Sowing repellent-coated seeds on an area where trees are desired.

a)

heel-in

b)

cuttings

c)

wild seedlings

d)

direct seeding

25.

Storing the young trees prior to planting by placing them in a trench and covering their roots with soil.

a)

heel-in

b)

cuttings

c)

wild seedlings

d)

direct seeding

26.

Seedlings that are growing in the woods in their natural state.

a)

heel-in

b)

cuttings

c)

wild seedlings

d)

direct seeding

27.

List three hazards faced by individuals working in the forestry industry.

4 lines
28.

Forest managed for one purpose.

a)

multiple-use

b)

poles

c)

single-use

d)

forestry

29.

Round timbers most often used to support utility lines.

a)

multiple-use

b)

poles

c)

single-use

d)

forestry

30.

Forest managed for more than one purpose.

a)

multiple-use

b)

poles

c)

single-use

d)

forestry

31.

List three objectives of forestry.

4 lines
32.

Material used to make wooden barrels and kegs.

a)

felling

b)

limbing

c)

skidding

d)

cooperage

33.

Act of cutting or severing a tree from its stump.

a)

felling

b)

limbing

c)

skidding

d)

cooperage

34.

Part of the logging operation in which the logs are dragged from where they were cut to length to a central location for loading onto trucks or rail cars.

a)

felling

b)

limbing

c)

skidding

d)

cooperage

35.

Cutting branches off either felled or standing trees

a)

felling

b)

limbing

c)

skidding

d)

cooperage