What do you mean I did it wrong?
Tools of the trade
DIS
Plot Problems
Prism Predicaments
100

A systematic distortion resulting from faulty measurement procedures, instrumental errors, or incorrect sampling method

What is Bais?

100

A tool that measures the diameter of a tree

What is a Dendrometer?

100

Which system of calculateding BdFt is the most accurate?

What is International ?

100

How do you determine the radius of a plot?  

What is 3.16 r^2

100

How far away do you hold an angle gage from your face?  

What is 25"

200

Refers to the closeness of the measurement to the true value

What is Accuracy ?

200

A tool that measures the height of a tree

What is a Hypsometer? 

200

Which system of calculateding BdFt is the least accurate?

What is Doyle ?

200

What is the diameter of a ⅕ ac plot

What is 52 feet ?

200

What does BAF stand for? 

What is Basal Area Factor?

300

Refers to the degree of agreement or lack or variation in a series of measurements. In other words consistently getting the same results

What is Precision?

300

This tool is used to measure the total height of a tree and is based off of Trigonometry 

What is a Clinometer?

300

((D-4)/4)^2 X L is the formula for what?

What is Doyle? 

300

What is the diameter of a 1/20 ac plot

What is 26 feet?

300

What is the most common BAF in the Eastern United States? 

What is 10 BAF 

400

Measures the displacement of water  

What is a Xylometer?

400

This tool is used to measure the merchantable height of a tree

What is a Merritt Hypsometer? 

400

Name one pro and one con of using the Doyle BdFt Scale

As a buyer you come ahead on Doyle if you buy small timber but as a seller if you buy small timbe you come out behind 

400

What tally system do Foresters use to count trees within a plot? 

What is the Dot Tally System? 

400

Two-part question 

A. PAF stands for what? 

B. What is the PAF for a 10 BAF Prism 

A. Plot Area Factor 

B. 2.75 

500

Measuring dbh at 3.5 instead of 4.5 ft above the ground is an example of what?

What is Bais?

500

This tool can double as a hypsometer and a dendrometer, commonly used to measure dob@17.3 ft.  

What is a Relaskope? 

500

A 22" White Oak log would be how many BdFt in the Doyle scale? 

What is 324? 

500

Out of the cruising system we learned about which is the most accurate? 

What is 100% Cruise

500

When conducing a Prism cruise with a 10 BAF Prism you find 22" White Oak 65 feet away from your plot center. Is is in or out?

What is Out?

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