This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Forestry > Forest Management > Forestry – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Forestry Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The main functions of a tree trunk are .....? A) Support and move nutrients & food. B) Support and photosynthesis. C) Holds roots in place & produces food for roots. D) Produces food & stores carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Support and move nutrients & food. 2. Which type of forest management cuts older, damaged and diseased trees in the attempt to make the conditions better for the remaining trees- encourages shade tolerant trees to grow? A) Selective cut. B) Seed tree. C) Clear cut. D) Shelterwood cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Selective cut. 3. Signaled the Filipinization of the country's forest service by appointing Forester Florencio R. Tamesis as Director of .....? A) Bureau of Forestry. B) Forestry Bureau. C) Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. D) Bureau of Forest Development. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bureau of Forestry. 4. Which method of harvesting trees is safest A) Shelterwood. B) Selection System. C) Clear cutting. D) Seed-Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clear cutting. 5. The cell layer that produces new bark (phloem) and new wood (xylem) every year. A) Sapwood. B) Outer Bark. C) Inner Bark. D) Cambium Layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cambium Layer. 6. Which of the following is NOT an environmental consequence of clear-cutting? A) Increased soil erosion and sedimentation in nearby streams. B) Decreased biodiversity due to habitat fragmentation. C) Increased fish populations due to the influx of nutrients into streams. D) Decreased tree species diversity due to the loss of shade-tolerant species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased fish populations due to the influx of nutrients into streams. 7. Inauguration of the Inspeccion General de Montes? A) July 1864. B) June 1863. C) July 1863. D) June 1864. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) June 1863. 8. This agency manages fish, wildlife, and habitats. A) US Forest Service. B) US Fish and Wildlife Service. C) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. D) Bureau of Reclamation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) US Fish and Wildlife Service. 9. Which method of harvesting trees is the best for the environment A) Selection System. B) Shelterwood. C) Seed-Tree. D) Clear cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Selection System. 10. I have four species of tree on my land. Which tree would make me the most profit if I harvested it? A) Redbud. B) Black Walnut. C) Osage Orange. D) Pin Oak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black Walnut. 11. Which of the following is associated more with surface mining than subsurface mining? A) It is more expensive. B) It produces less waste material. C) It disturbs more land. D) It causes subsidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It disturbs more land. 12. The scientific management of forests. A) Silviculture. B) Forestry. C) Deforestation. D) Reforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silviculture. 13. The lowest visible surface layer of the forest ecosystem is the ..... A) Forest floor. B) Lower limbs. C) Stratification layer. D) Sunlight restrictive layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forest floor. 14. Which of these statements does not describe the process of clear cutting trees? A) It is economically efficient. B) It creates a large disturbance to the environment. C) It produces timber products at a very high rate. D) It protects biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It protects biodiversity. 15. A woody and perennial plant, typically large and with a well-defined stem or stems carrying a more or less definite crown. A) Herb. B) Grass. C) Shrub. D) Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tree. 16. A simple device that serves to estimate the basal area of a tree. A) A wedge prism. B) An abney level. C) A transit. D) A compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A wedge prism. 17. Rapid expansion of a city into the surrounding countryside is A) Urbanization. B) Smart Growth. C) Infrastructure. D) Urban Sprawl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Urban Sprawl. 18. A mature oak tree pumps water from the soil & can transpire ..... gallons of water or more into the atmosphere during a hot summer day, allowing the soil to store additional runoff. A) 100. B) 50. C) 25. D) 75. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 100. 19. Land that is dominated by grasses that grow mostly native plants and is used for grazing. A) Corridors. B) Overgrazing. C) Healthy Forest Initiative. D) Rangelands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rangelands. 20. 55% of the timber cut each year is used for A) Paper and paper products. B) Fuelwood and charcoal. C) Building materials. D) Furniture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fuelwood and charcoal. 21. Which tree is invasive and commonly used in decorative landscape? A) Bradford Pear. B) White Pine. C) Silver maple. D) American Elm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bradford Pear. 22. ..... is the responsibility to maintain and improve our forests as ecosystems and all the services they provide (e.g. soil, water, wildlife habitat, trees, and aesthetics). A) Forest Ownership. B) Forest Partnership. C) Forest Preservation. D) Forest Stewardship. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forest Stewardship. 23. This Executive Order declares a moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of timber in the natural and residual forests and creating the anti-illegal logging task force. A) Executive Order No. 263. B) Executive Order No. 26. C) Executive Order No. 23. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Executive Order No. 23. 24. A management system that includes fire suppression will likely lead toI. Large quantities of biomass accumulating on the forest floor.II. An increase in the likelihood of uncontrolled natural fires.III. An acceleration of nutrient cycling A) I only. B) I and II. C) I and III. D) II and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I and II. 25. How many methods are there to harvest timber A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 26. The best example of a surface fire is A) The type of fire that burns seedlings, small trees, and leaf litter, but not mature trees and most animals. B) Fire that is deliberately set, frequently in the tropical rainforest, after the trees have been cut down. C) Fires that occur along newly exposed edges of forest after fragmentation has occurred. D) Fire that allows dead wood, leaves, and other flammable ground litter to accumulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The type of fire that burns seedlings, small trees, and leaf litter, but not mature trees and most animals. 27. What is it called when one forest is used for many different things? A) Clearing. B) Selective Succession. C) Multiple Silviculture. D) Multiple Use Management. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Multiple Use Management. 28. Which trees would be managed by clear cut (since these trees require full sun and can regrow from remaining roots after being cut)? A) Sugar and red maple. B) Hemlock and basswood. C) White ash and oak. D) Big tooth and quaking aspen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Big tooth and quaking aspen. 29. Basal area is used to determine: A) The degree of stocking of a stand of trees. B) The amount of timber to remove in thinning an over-stocked stand. C) Timber volume. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 30. A series of predictable and orderly changes within an ecosystem over time. A) Succession. B) Wildlife habitat. C) Wilderness areas. D) Canopy. 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