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Tree Farms
Wood Fiber Production
Forest Succession
Natural Forest
Forest Ecosystem
100
Operations where trees are planted in rows
What is a tree farm?
100
15 years
How long before timber can be harvested in the South?
100
When a forest begins from bare ground replacing a prior forest
What is succession?
100
A tree that is broadleaf and deciduous
What is a hardwood?
100
An area where all living and nonliving features of the area depend on one another.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Where most tree farms are located
Where is the Southern United States?
200
Georgia
What state is the leading producer of wood?
200
The limbs of faster-growing trees create an overstory or
What is canopy?
200
Two main lumber producers in the Northwest
What are Washington and Oregon?
200
These trees produce more oxygen
What are young trees?
300
Plantations
What are the areas where trees are planted in rows called?
300
A natural resource that could be utilized
What are forests?
300
Faster growing trees (conifers)
What are softwood trees?
300
A cone-bearing, evergreen
What is a softwood tree?
300
Provides a habitat for plants and animals
What are forests?
400
Mechanical means, chemicals or prescribed burnings
How is the underbrush cleared?
400
Land where the environment is carefully preserved to that it will remain close to its original natural state.
What are wilderness areas?
400
Plants that do not receive enough sunlight eventually do this
What is die?
400
Many logging operations in the Northwest were stopped because of this bird.
What is the Spotted Owl?
400
One of the largest industries in agriculture.
What is forestry?
500
Fence posts, poles, lumber and paper
What are the trees from tree farms/plantations used for?
500
This Act in 1891 gave the President the power to put aside timberlands to be managed so that people would have forests to enjoy
What is the Federal Forest Reserve Act?
500
When the leaves fall off a hardwood tree
What is deciduous?
500
This is where most of the nation's hardwood is located
What is the Northeast?
500
The forestry industry stretches from coast to coast and encompasses approximately how many acres?
What is 500 million?