Silviculture Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. This tree reaches the canopy but receives little sun from the top.

Correct Answer: C) Intermediate.

2. Predominant height of a stand consists of

Correct Answer: C) The average height of dominant and codominant trees.

3. How would you thin a stand to make it uneven-aged?

Correct Answer: C) Selective Cut.

4. Which is not a type of forest regeneration?

Correct Answer: B) Selective Thinning.

5. What is a thinning from the lower crown classes?

Correct Answer: D) Thinning from below/ Low thinning.

6. A tree in the understory that is slow-growing but will improve with more sunlight is .....

Correct Answer: A) Oppressed.

7. This is the age at which trees are mature and ready to harvest.

Correct Answer: B) Rotation Age.

8. How can I express timber volume?

Correct Answer: A) Board Feet.

9. How do you know your forest needs thinning?

Correct Answer: D) All these are true.

10. This is an isolated tree with many limbs.

Correct Answer: C) Wolf Tree.

11. When is the best time to plant trees?

Correct Answer: D) Spring.

12. What is high grading?

Correct Answer: A) Harvesting the most valuable trees and leaving UGS.

13. What is the cross-sectional area of a tree?

Correct Answer: B) Basal Area.

14. Which is the measurement of a small pole?

Correct Answer: B) 5-8 inches.

15. A tree that is dying is .....

Correct Answer: B) Suppressed.

16. The time between stand establishment and harvest is called

Correct Answer: C) Rotation age.

17. Why is mechanical thinning not a beneficial as selective thinning?

Correct Answer: D) Two answers are correct.

18. What is a silvicultural prescription?

Correct Answer: D) Both A and C.

19. A stand of trees that has reached rotation age but is beginning to decline in volume and quality.

Correct Answer: D) Overmature.

20. Which of these is a tree that reaches the canopy but receives little sunlight from the sides?

Correct Answer: A) Codominant.