Forestry & Tree IQ Test

Forestry and Tree IQ Test

How Tree Smart Are You?

(Be sure to have your forester take this quiz too!)

Get yourself a piece of paper and a pencil, jot your answers down as you take this quiz, then go to the answers link to see how you have done! Beware this is not an easy test!

1. What cellular portion of a tree transports water and minerals to leaves for food production?

2. What is the Genus for oak?

3. The leading federal forestry agency in the United States is what organization?

4. Trees are nature's oldest living things and can be as old as 4,000 years.  What is the common name of the tree that attains this ancient age?

5. What US state leads the nation in total acres of commercial forest land as indicated by the latest USFS forest survey?

6. What biologic tissue causes height growth in trees?

7. What rare bird depends on a Jack Pine forest?

8. The earth's single most important chemical process that supplies a tree's food is called what?

9. What tree species was destroyed in the US when a Chinese blight was imported into this country in 1906?

10. What structure/system in a tree is fundamental to structural support, water and nutrient uptake, and to its health and vigor?

11. A place where baby trees are propagated, dug, packaged, and delivered to planters is called what?

12. What does OSB stand for?

13. What kind of tree is responsible for the production of syrup?

14. Gaseous pollutants like carbon dioxide are absorbed by trees. At the same time trees are giving off what beneficial substance?

15. What is the green substance that colors most tree leaves?

16. What is the most critical environmental element, that when absent, causes most failures in newly established tree plantings ?

17. What geographical location are natural forests of Redwoods found growing?

18. Who wrote A Sand County Almanac?

19. What is a cord of wood?

20. One measurement of trees is taken at a point called DBH.  What does this term mean?

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