Stewardship Quiz

Directions: Read the statement and choose the most appropriate response. You may click the helpful hints button at any time. Good luck!

1. Forest fires and decomposition release *** from trees back into the atmosphere and into the ground.

a. hydrogen
b. carbon
c. oxygen
d. nitrogen

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2. Not all forests occur on Crown land. The majority of private land located on the edges of agricultural land in Saskatchewan belongs to ***.

a. woodlot owners
b. Aboriginal groups
c. the Prince Albert Model Forest
d. Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management

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3. Part of the natural renewal of forest ecosystems that is beneficial to the control of disease and insects is ***.

a. flooding
b. hot weather
c. fire
d. chemical intervention

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4. The G.I.S. is useful to forest managers because it is able to  ***.

a. analyze and display the forest resources in map form
b. estimate the commercial species damaged by spruce budworm
c. help foresters produce healthier, faster growing trees
d. all of the above

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5. Trees that have thickened branches called "witches brooms" are most likely infected with ***.

a. Dutch elm disease
b. dwarf mistletoe
c. western gall rust
d. armillaria root rot

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6. The main insects of devastation that occur in our forests include ***.

a. armillaria root rot
b. spruce budworm
c. canker budworm
d. all of the above

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7. A forest consisting of mainly jack pine and balsam fir has recently been harvested. Black spruce seedlings are being planted on the harvested site. This type of tree planting technique is known as ***.

a. afforestation
b. deforestation
c. reforestation
d. restoration

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8. Shelterbelts are a common site in rural Saskatchewan. They are useful snow traps and are capable of reducing wind speeds over exposed soil. Planned shelterbelts are the result of ***.

a. afforestation
b. reforestation
c. artificial restoration
d. regeneration

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9. A carbon sink is an area that ***.

a. has recently been harvested
b. is exposed to a great deal of sunlight
c. contains a great deal of organic matter in the soil
d. is relatively uncommon in Saskatchewan

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10. The quick, successful establishment of a certain tree species in a reforested area may depend upon ***.

a. the treatment of the site before planting
b. strong, genetically superior seedlings
c. competition from other plant species
d. all of the above

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