Forestry Envirothon

Identify this leaf

• Mulberry

• Sassafras

• Red maple

• Redbud

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Clearcutting means...

• specific trees are selected to be removed

• everything is cut down without any plan

• clumps of trees here and there are removed

• After planning, most trees are removed from a single area

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

How does thinning a forest improve forest health and increase the value of timber at final harvest? (select all that apply)

• Reduces competition

• Increases profits in future by allowing trees to get bigger

• Logging equipment increases aeration of the soil, allowing tree roots to thrive

• Decreases resources to residual trees

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following terms with their correct definition

• Animals

• Old-Growth Primary Forests

• What grows back after a forest is destroyed by humans or natural disasters

• Tree Plantations

• Plants

• Fauna

• Old, untouched by human activity

• Flora

• human-managed forests that are used to harvest wood products

• Second Growth Forests

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What could be a scientific solution to the problems of depletion of forest.

• a. Stop burning or cutting down biologically diverse forest and to allow nature to replenish them

• a. Do not support the logging / lumber industry

• Enact and enforce laws and regulations on cutting matured trees

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Clearcutting is

• A timber harvesting practice where all trees larger than 20 feet tall are cut harvested.

• When logging companies plant new saplings in an area bigger than 1 hectare.

• A timber harvesting practice where all of the trees in a given area are harvested at the same time.

• When forestry services clear out the underbrush in a given area.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following is NOT a critical technique for sustainable forestry?

• Agroforestry

• Forest management

• Reforestation

• Clear-cutting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Reorder the forests by which have the most biodiversity (1) and the least biodiversity (3)

• Old-Growth Forests

• Tree Farms

• Secondary Growth Forests

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following are examples of ecosystem services? Select all that apply.

• Stores carbon dioxide

• Produces oxygen

• Purifys water

• Produces wood Products

• Provides habitat

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Match the following

• Selective-Cutting

• Cutting down ONLY selected trees (based on height, age, etc.) either singly or in small groups.

• Clear-cutting

• Cutting strips of trees that are between strips of untouched trees. Usually on the side of a mountain.

• Strip-cutting

• Cutting down EVERY tree in an area in as efficiently and quickly as possible

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4