NR: Unit 6

Leaving some standing trees after harvest to shelter the sprouts or suckers produced by a tree's stump and to encourage vegetative regeneration is called:

• coppice cutting.

• liberation

• seed tree cutting

• thinning

What is the name of the management practice used when a mature forest is harvested in two or three stages, leaving some trees to produce seeds?

• clear cutting

• salvage cutting

• selective cutting

• shelter wood cutting

Diameter at breast height (dbh) is measured at what level from the ground?

• 3.5 feet

• 4 feet

• 4.5 feet

• 5 feet

A tree produces ball-shaped fruit approximately 1 inch in diameter. When ripe, the fruit breaks up into small, elongated seeds that can be dispersed far by winds. Which tree is this?

• American sycamore

• bald cypress

• sweet gum

• white oak

How many 16' merchantable logs are in a 56' tree?

• 1

• 3.5

• 7

• 8

Which tree has light gray bark, large, mostly white flowers, and grows best in deep moist soils along streams and in lower mountain coves?

• river birch

• loblolly pine

• yellow poplar

• southern red oak

How many cords of wood would be in a 16' × 16' × 4' stack of wood?

• 4

• 6

• 7

• 8

The red side of a compass needle always points:

• east

• north

• south

• west

An evergreen tree with shiny green leaves and red berries is the:

• American holly

• black oak.

• red maple

• willow oak

Which tree has 6- to 9-inch-long needles that occur in clusters of three and is the most common pine tree in North Carolina?

• loblolly pine

• longleaf pine

• shortleaf pine

• white pine