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1/12 Sustainable Forestry AP
By Ryan Beeler
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Question 1
1.
Demand for wood will go up _____________ by 2050
2X
3X
4X
5X
Question 2
2.
What are the three different types of forests?
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Question 3
3.
Use the PPT to answer the benefits of sustainable forest management.
(The yellow circles help!)
visibility
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Question 4
4.
How do we mitigate deforestation?
Reuse wood
Reforest deforested areas
Use and buy wood harvested by ecologically sustainable forestry techniques
Continue slash-and-burn agriculture
Question 5
5.
How do we protect forests from disease?
Use Integrated Pest Management
Selected removal of affected trees
Plant exotic trees from other parts of the world
Question 6
6.
Fire is
an unnatrual process
always caused by humans on accident
always caused by humans on purpose
a natural process
Question 7
7.
Fires help the process of nutrient cycling by
burying nutrients in sediment for millions of years
liberating nutrients tied up in dead biomass
creating sediment that erodes into bodies of water
solidifying nutrients in solid form for millennia
Question 8
8.
Fires create regeneration of new plants by
burying plants in sediment for millions of years
creating new openings for early-successional species
creating sediment that erodes into bodies of water
gasifying nutrients in gaseous form for millennia
Question 9
9.
What is a prescribed burn?
a fire set unintentionally by someone who litters with a cigarette
a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest management
a fire set unintentionally by campers that did not put out a campfire
a fire set intentionally for purposes of arson
Question 10
10.
What builds up when periodic fires are suppressed?
Live plants
Poison ivy
Dead biomass
Dead animals
Question 11
11.
What is causing California's wildfires?
El Nino and La Nina
Climate change (heat and drought) + increased development
Placement of National Parks in fire prone areas
Poor forest management
Question 12
12.
Describe
the process of reforestation.
Question 13
13.
Describe
the process of selective cutting.
Question 14
14.
Describe
the process of ecologically sustainable forestry.
Question 15
15.
Describe
the process of reusing wood.
Question 16
16.
Describe
the process of protecting forests from diseases.
Question 17
17.
Describe
the process of a prescribed burn.
Question 18
18.
Describe
5 ecosystem services that sustainable forests provide.