This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Forestry > Silviculture > Silviculture – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Silviculture Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This tree reaches the canopy but receives little sun from the top. A) Intermediate. B) Codominant. C) Oppressed. D) Dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intermediate. 2. Predominant height of a stand consists of A) The average height of intermediate and suppressed trees. B) The height of all intermediate trees. C) The average height of dominant and codominant trees. D) The average height of all trees in a stand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The average height of dominant and codominant trees. 3. How would you thin a stand to make it uneven-aged? A) Clear-cut. B) Selective Cut. C) Seed Tree Cut. D) Shelter-wood cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Selective Cut. 4. Which is not a type of forest regeneration? A) Natural Regeneration. B) Selective Thinning. C) Artificial Regeneration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Selective Thinning. 5. What is a thinning from the lower crown classes? A) Mechanical Thinning. B) Thinning from below/ Low thinning. C) Crown Thinning. D) Intermediate thinning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thinning from below/ Low thinning. 6. A tree in the understory that is slow-growing but will improve with more sunlight is ..... A) Oppressed. B) Suppressed. C) A wolf tree. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oppressed. 7. This is the age at which trees are mature and ready to harvest. A) Silviculture Age. B) Cutting Age. C) Rotation Age. D) Timber Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rotation Age. 8. How can I express timber volume? A) Board Feet. B) Cubic Inches. C) Logs. D) Tree Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Board Feet. 9. How do you know your forest needs thinning? A) Crown is less than 1/3 total height. B) Growth rings are narrow. C) Basal area is too high. D) All these are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All these are true. 10. This is an isolated tree with many limbs. A) Tulip Tree. B) Wolf Tree. C) Octopus Tree. D) Joshua Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wolf Tree. 11. When is the best time to plant trees? A) Summer. B) Winter. C) Fall. D) Spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring. 12. What is high grading? A) Harvesting the most valuable trees and leaving UGS. B) Selecting trees based on a diameter limit. C) Cutting trees to leave the most valuable timber. D) A timber harvest that provides the most benefit to wildlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harvesting the most valuable trees and leaving UGS. 13. What is the cross-sectional area of a tree? A) Site Index. B) Basal Area. C) Site Quality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Basal Area. 14. A tree that is dying is ..... A) Intermediate. B) Dominant. C) Suppressed. D) Oppressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suppressed. 15. The time between stand establishment and harvest is called A) High grading. B) A regeneration cut. C) Rotation age. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rotation age. 16. Why is mechanical thinning not a beneficial as selective thinning? A) Two answers are correct. B) It doesn't remove diseased or poor quality trees. C) The trees can be damaged. D) The rows are too wide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two answers are correct. 17. What is a silvicultural prescription? A) The recommended treatment for the forest. B) A combination of practices meant to reduce the risk of non-source point pollution to stream and rivers. C) A course of action to effect change in a forest stand. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 18. A stand of trees that has reached rotation age but is beginning to decline in volume and quality. A) Overmature. B) Climax. C) Mature. D) Large Poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overmature. 19. Which of these is a tree that reaches the canopy but receives little sunlight from the sides? A) Oppressed. B) Suppressed. C) Codominant. D) Dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Codominant. 20. Which is a tree that is tallest in the stand? A) Intermediate. B) Suppressed. C) Codominant. D) Dominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dominant. 21. Which type of thinning is one that takes trees in the canopy? A) Thinning from above/Crown thinning. B) Thinning from below/low thinning. C) Salvage Cut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinning from above/Crown thinning. 22. A seedling can be ..... A) 15-20 yrs. old. B) 5-15 yrs. old. C) 20-25 yrs. old. D) 25-30 yrs. old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5-15 yrs. old. 23. What is the productive capacity of the forest? A) Climax stage. B) Site index. C) Primary succession. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Site index. 24. Which is the correct order for tree growth stages? A) Sapling, seedling, pole, over mature, mature. B) Seedling, sapling, pole, mature, over mature. C) Pole, seedling, mature, sapling, over mature. D) Mature, over mature, sapling, seedling, pole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seedling, sapling, pole, mature, over mature. 25. This is forest management where all the trees are the same age. A) Uneven Aged. B) Intermediate. C) Overmature. D) Even Aged. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Even Aged. Related QuizzesForestry QuizzesAgriculture Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books