Silviculture
What is silviculture?
What is the practice of caring for, planting and harvesting trees.
What is the blade of a leaf?
What is from the tip of the leaf to the start of the stem?
What is the bark of a tree and what does it do?
The bark is the outer most layer and it helps protect the tree from weather, animals, etc.
Name 3 ways we can ID trees.
Bark, Leaves, Buds, Fruit, Nuts, Silhouette
Describe the pole stage.
When trees shed their lower limbs to focus on growing up.
Describe what a tree stand is?
What is a group of trees with the same characteristics (size, shape, age)?
What is the center line of the leaf called?
What is the apex?
Describe heartwood and sapwood.
Must answer both correct to get points)
Heartwood- older, harder, hardwood, inner part of tree
Sapwood- Younger, softer, softwood, out part of tree, we find sap here
Why is tree ID important?
Know the wood, understand what's around us, knowing the uses of trees.
Describe the photosynthesis process.
During photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) from the air and soil. Within the plant cell, the water is oxidized, meaning it loses electrons, while the carbon dioxide is reduced, meaning it gains electrons. This transforms the water into oxygen and the carbon dioxide into glucose.
What does thinning mean in forest management?
What is, cutting back dead, diseased or over mature trees, limbs or stands?
What are the leaf margins and give two examples of each?
What are the edges of the leaf?
I.e. Smooth, Serrate, double serrate, lobed, unlobed, dentate,
What does the xylem transport?
What is water?
What words describe a leaf with a jagged margin?
Serrated or Toothed
What is prescribed burning?
Intentional, controlled burning of an area.
What is the difference between the establishment stage and the tending stage?
What is, one is planting a new stand of trees and the other is caring for the growing trees?
a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that controls the rate of gas exchange
What is the Stoma/Stomata?
True or False: The phloem transports sugar.
What is True?
True or False: You can ID deciduous trees by just using their leaves in the winter.
What is false?
Clear cutting happens in which stage of forest management?
What is the harvesting stage?
Even aged, uneven stage, mature, overmature, young, old growth, secondary growth are all examples of these.
What are Stands?
What is the difference between the stipule and petiole?
Stipule- Base of Stem
Petiole- Where stem meets the leaf
This is the type of document used to identify trees.
Tree ID Key
Explain one example of the interdependence of living and non-living components of a forest.
Various answers.