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1/10 Sustainable Forestry 5.17
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Question 1
1.
What are the three different types of forests?
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Question 2
2.
Use the PPT to answer the benefits of sustainable forest management.
(The yellow circles help!)
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Question 3
3.
How do we mitigate deforestation?
(Select 3 correct answers)
Use and buy wood harvested by ecologically sustainable forestry techniques
Reuse wood
Continue slash-and-burn agriculture
Reforest deforested areas
Question 4
4.
How do we protect forests from disease?
(Select 2 correct answers)
Plant exotic trees from other parts of the world
Selected removal of affected trees
Use Integrated Pest Management
Question 5
5.
Fire is
a natural process
an unnatrual process
always caused by humans on accident
always caused by humans on purpose
Question 6
6.
Fires help the process of nutrient cycling by
creating sediment that erodes into bodies of water
burying nutrients in sediment for millions of years
liberating nutrients tied up in dead biomass
solidifying nutrients in solid form for millennia
Question 7
7.
Fires create regeneration of new plants by
gasifying nutrients in gaseous form for millennia
burying plants in sediment for millions of years
creating new openings for early-successional species
creating sediment that erodes into bodies of water
Question 8
8.
What is a prescribed burn?
a fire set unintentionally by campers that did not put out a campfire
a fire set unintentionally by someone who litters with a cigarette
a fire set intentionally for purposes of arson
a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest management
Question 9
9.
What builds up when periodic fires are suppressed?
Dead biomass
Live plants
Poison ivy
Dead animals
Question 10
10.
What is causing California's wildfires?
Poor forest management
El Nino and La Nina
Placement of National Parks in fire prone areas
Climate change (heat and drought) + increased development
Question 11
11.
Describe
the process of reforestation.
Question 12
12.
Describe
the process of selective cutting.
Question 13
13.
Describe
the process of ecologically sustainable forestry.
Question 14
14.
Describe
the process of reusing wood.
Question 15
15.
Describe
the process of protecting forests from diseases.
Question 16
16.
Describe
the process of a prescribed burn.
Question 17
17.
Identify
3 ecosystem services that sustainable forests provide.