Forest Conservation Quiz

Definition: A fire deliberately set under controlled conditions in order to reduce the accumulation of dead biomass on a forest floor. This prevents future forest fires from growing out of control.

• Reusing wood

• Selective cutting

• Fire management

• Prescribed burn

Definition: Planting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed.

• Forestry

• Reforestation

• Selective Cutting

• Tree Plantations

Definition: Cutting down only some trees in a forest and leaving a mix of tree sizes and species behind. Less degrading to the ecosystem.

• Reusing wood

• Clear-cutting

• Prescribed burn

• Selective cutting

Definition: an approach that has a goal of maintaining all species in as close a natural state as possible. Involves replacing machine labor (trucks & chainsaws) with human and animal labor (hand saws, horses, etc.)

• carbon sequestration

• reforestation

• old growth forests

• ecologically sustainable forestry

Definition: extremely hot forest fire that burns ground vegetation and treetops

• Tree plantations

• Old growth forests

• Fire management

• Crown fire

Definition: the storage of carbon in a form that does not readily release the carbon to the atmosphere or water (such as trees storing CO2 in their tissues)

• Forestry

• Carbon sequestration

• Selective cutting

• Reusing wood

Definition: Recycling or reusing wood from old buildings in order to reduce demand for new trees to be harvested for wood.

• Selective cutting

• Reusing wood

• Carbon sequestration

• Fire management

Definition: Forests free from disturbance for long enough (generally 150 to 200 years) to have mature trees, physical conditions, species diversity. Long-term carbon sinks.

• Reusing wood

• Old growth forests

• Crown fire

• Forestry

Definition: A set of procedures designed to make decisions about which fires to allow to burn, and when to intervene and put out natural forest fires.

• Crown fire

• Prescribed burn

• Reusing wood

• Fire management

Definition: large areas typically planted with a single rapidly growing tree species planted and harvested continually.

• Crown fire

• Selective cutting

• Tree plantations

• Reforestation