Science 2
____, found in the western United States and Canada, are the second tallest trees.
Douglas Firs
The wood surrounding the dead heartwood is called ____?
Sapwood
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Removing trees from the forest for human use is called ________.
Tree Harvesting
Who was the only president to resign from office
Richard Nixon
Who was the Iraqi dictator in 1990
Saddam Hussein
What forest is the largest in North America?
Northern Forest
The central core of a young woody stem is called ____?
Pith
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who won the presidential election in 1992
Bill Clinton
A million students and workers gathered in Bejing's _____ in a great demonstration of freedom.
Tiananmen Square
What oil-rich kingdom did the Iraqi dictator invade
Kuwait
The science of managing and studying forests and related natural resources is called ____?
Forestry
At the end of a twig and on the sides of the twig, there are small ____?
Buds
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Foresters will deliberately set fire to a patch of forest under controlled conditions are called ____.
Prescribed burning
What year did West and East Berlin reunite
1990
What is the single currency of EU members?
Euro
The Carbon-Oxygen cycle does what for the environment?
Recycles Carbon into Oxygen so that everything can breathe.
The _____ is a waxy protective layer on the leaf that encourages water retention.
Hint: You have them all of your fingers
Cuticle
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Conifer trees mean that the trees produce what?
Cones
What year did the Soviet Union disband
1991
What organization has complete control of all of the oceans
Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)
The ________ is used for trees that produce that are wind-scattered and seedlings that need abundant sunlight for proper growth.
Seed-Tree Method
The pigment that produces the color purple on leaves is called _____?
Anthocyanin
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The famous Russian writer that was imprisoned for writing about the cruelties of communism
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Romanians had an especially difficult time gaining their freedom due to the powerful and cruel dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu
The _______ is a global push to unite the nations of the world for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining global peace.
New World Order (NWO)