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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. |
| | 1. | ________ is a wood highly prized for it’s aroma and resistance to moths. | a. | white oak | c. | white cedar | | b. | red oak | d. | red cedar
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| | 2. | _______ wood is used to make acetic acid and wood alcohol. | a. | white oak | c. | sugar maple | | b. | white pine | d. | honey locust | | | | | | |
| | 3. | Which is not a common use for honey locust wood? | a. | fuelwood | c. | pulpwood | | b. | veneer | | | | | | | | |
| | 4. | ______ builds wood tissue in the trunk. | a. | cambium layer | c. | the leaf | | b. | heartwood | d. | phloem | | | | | | |
| | 5. | _________ carries plant food manufactured in th leaves down to the branches-trunk-root. | a. | heartwood | c. | phloem | | b. | sapwood | d. | xylem | | | | | | |
| | 6. | The manufacture of plant food in the leaves of a plant is called__________? | a. | respiration | c. | photosynthesis | | b. | transpiration | d. | perspiration | | | | | | |
| | 7. | The jagged edges of a leaf margin are called? | a. | symbold | c. | coarsers | | b. | serrates | d. | ripples | | | | | | |
| | 8. | The leaf stem is also known as the ________? | a. | petiole | c. | joiner | | b. | attach | d. | midrib | | | | | | |
| | 9. | When a single leaf is attached to the twig it is said to be ________? | a. | truncate | c. | palmate | | b. | pinnate | d. | simple | | | | | | |
| | 10. | When many small leaflets are attached to te petiole to form a larger leaf-that type of leaf is called________? | a. | multiple | c. | acute | | b. | compound | d. | oblique | | | | | | |
| | 11. | Which group of conifers has its needles in a cluster of from two to five? | a. | pines | c. | cedars | | b. | spruces | d. | firs | | | | | | |
| | 12. | Which is not a coniferous tree? | a. | pines | c. | walnuts | | b. | cedars | d. | spruces | | | | | | |
| | 13. | Which are not decidious trees? | a. | oaks | c. | ashes | | b. | firs | d. | willows | | | | | | |
| | 14. | Which tree leaves are least likely to turn red in the fall? | a. | sugar maple | c. | red maple | | b. | silver maple | d. | red oak | | | | | | |
| | 15. | When referring to trees as tolerant or intolerant- a dolerant species is one that will with stand____? | a. | drought | c. | shading | | b. | cold | d. | flooding | | | | | | |
| | 16. | Anouther term for the trunk of a tree is ________? | a. | bole | c. | skid | | b. | club | d. | pike | | | | | | |
| | 17. | An example of a deciduous conifer is the _______? | a. | tamarack-larch | c. | eastern white pine | | b. | aspen-popular | d. | eastern red cedar | | | | | | |
| | 18. | Under ideal conditions it requires and 8 hour day to plant ________ by hand-using a planting bar. | a. | 50-100 | c. | 500-800 | | b. | 200-300 | d. | 2000-3000 | | | | | | |
| | 19. | A herbicide used to control most grasses and broadleaf weeds-but safe around most trees and shrubs is _________? | a. | roundup | c. | atrazine | | b. | captan | d. | simazine | | | | | | |
| | 20. | Most insect damage to young tree stand is first noticeable in ________? | a. | late spring | c. | early fall | | b. | mid-summer | d. | early winter | | | | | | |
| | 21. | The best time of year to plant seedlings is __________? | a. | early spring | c. | early fall | | b. | early summer | d. | early winter | | | | | | |
| | 22. | The proper depth to plant seedlings is ___________? | a. | the same depth as they were in the nursery | | b. | slightly deeper than they wre in the nursery | | c. | slightly shallower than they were in the nursery | | d. | 30 inches | | | | |
| | 23. | The most common cause of dead seedling is ____________? | a. | poor stock | c. | disease | | b. | dry roots | d. | insects | | | | | | |
| | 24. | Which is considered to be the slowest growing? | a. | silver maple | c. | sugar maple | | b. | red maple | d. | all grow at the same rate | | | | | | |
| | 25. | Which has the greatest resistance to drought? | a. | white ash | c. | basswood (linden) | | b. | green ash | d. | sugar maple | | | | | | |
| | 26. | Which evergreen has a pendulous apperarance when mature? | a. | white fir | c. | scotch pine | | b. | blue spruce | d. | norway spruce | | | | | | |
| | 27. | __________ and __________ may most easily be planted as cuttings from a parent tree. | a. | maples and oaks | c. | poplars andwillows | | b. | walnuts and elms | d. | pines and spruces | | | | | | |
| | 28. | Anouther name for the hand planting bar is ________? | a. | wedge prism | c. | dribble | | b. | plunger | d. | increment borer | | | | | | |
| | 29. | Sighting vanes are part of the _______? | a. | hand compass | c. | wedge prism | | b. | staff compass | d. | aerial photograph | | | | | | |
| | 30. | Estimating the amount of board feet-cords-pieces (such as posts or poles) in a timbr stand is called __________? | a. | scaling | c. | browsing | | b. | guessing | d. | cruising | | | | | | |
| | 31. | The abney level is used to measure _______? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DBH | | | | | | | | |
| | 32. | A hand compass with numbers gradtuated up to 360 clockwise is called ________? | a. | quadrant | c. | declination | | b. | azimuth | | | | | | | | |
| | 33. | A tool to help read aerial photos is the _________? | a. | clinometer | c. | abney level | | b. | steroscope | | | | | | | | |
| | 34. | The haga altimeter is used to measure __________? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DHB | | | | | | | | |
| | 35. | Calipers are used to measure __________? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DBH | | | | | | | | |
| | 36. | The clinometer is used to measure _________? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DBH | | | | | | | | |
| | 37. | The biltmore stickis used to measure _________? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DBH | | | | | | | | |
| | 38. | The meritt hypsometer is used to measure ________? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DBH | | | | | | | | |
| | 39. | The log scale stick is used to measure __________? | a. | tree height | c. | board feet | | b. | DBH | | | | | | | | |
| | 40. | The merrit hypsometer meter the number of _______ foot logs in a standing tree. |
| | 41. | There are ________ feet in a rod. |
| | 42. | There are ________ feet in a chain. |
| | 43. | There are _________ square feet in an acre. | a. | 28400 | c. | 52700 | | b. | 43560 | d. | 66000 | | | | | | |
| | 44. | There are ______ acres in a square mile. | a. | 250 | c. | 500 | | b. | 320 | d. | 640 | | | | | | |
| | 45. | A square mile is commonly called a _______? | a. | quarter | c. | township | | b. | section | d. | region | | | | | | |
| | 46. | A normal township contains ______ sections? |
| | 47. | How many acres in a rectangular field 1/4 mile long by 1/4 mile wide? |
| | 48. | How many board feet in 1 piece of lumber which is 2”x4”x8”? | a. | 5.3 | c. | 5.7 | | b. | 4.7 | d. | 4.3 | | | | | | |
| | 49. | If lumber cost $450/M how much does 1 board foot cost? | a. | $45.00 | c. | $4.50 | | b. | $.45 | d. | $450.00 | | | | | | |
| | 50. | How much will 10 pieces of 2”x6”x10” cost if the cost is $650/M? | a. | $650.00 | c. | $65.00 | | b. | $6.50 | d. | $.65 | | | | | | |