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Tree Species

5 votes, 5 avg

Tree Species Quiz

Identify some of the tree species from Washington state.

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Pacific Yew

Red Alder

Ponderosa Pine

2 / 7

Douglas-fir

Red Alder

Pacific Yew

3 / 7

Ponderosa Pine

Western Red Cedar

Sitka Spruce

4 / 7

Ponderosa Pine

Douglas-fir

Pacific Yew

5 / 7

Sitka Spruce

Western Hemlock

Red Alder

6 / 7

Western Red Cedar

Pacific Yew

Sitka Spruce

7 / 7

Western Red Cedar

Red Alder

Douglas-fir

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Forestry

1 votes, 4 avg

Forest Management Quiz

Identify these forest management and sawmill activities.

1 / 7

Counting rings to tell age of tree

Identifying what type of tree species

Looking for bugs in the tree

2 / 7

Debarking the logs

Sorting the logs

Optimized log bucking

3 / 7

Inspecting the water quality

Managing stream-side vegetation

Measuring width of stream channel

4 / 7

Tree girdling

Tying a rope around a tree

Measuring tree diameter at breast height (DBH)

5 / 7

Measuring the width of a buffer zone

Building a fence in the forest

Conducting a vegetation survey

6 / 7

Load log truck with knuckleboom loader

Delimbing logs on the landing

Sorting logs on a log deck

7 / 7

Thinning trees in a nursery

Growing seedlings in a forest nursery

Caring for sod in a nursery

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age of a tree

1 votes, 5 avg

129

How to Tell the Age of a Tree

What is the age of this tree?

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What are the growth rings of a tree?

A ring you put around a tree.

Each ring in a tree cookie is one year of growth.

A ruler to measure growth.

2 / 4

What is the top of a Douglas-fir tree called?

Leader

First branch

Tippy top

3 / 4

What are the three ways to tell the age of a tree?

1. Count the whorls. 2. Measure the trunk. 3. Measure the length of the branches.

1. Measure the thickness of the bark. 2. Count the whorls. 3. Measure the trunk.

1. Use an increment borer. 2. Count the growth rings. 3. Count the whorls on a live tree.

4 / 4

What is an increment borer?

A tool used to extract core samples from a living tree.

An insect that bores into the bark of a tree.

A tool used to count the whorls of a living tree.

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climate

0 votes, 0 avg

Using Wood Products Helps Climate Change

How do working forests and wood products reduce global warming?

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How do managed forests help reduce global warming?

All of the answers

Planting, growing, harvesting trees to make wood products stores carbon from the atmosphere.

Growing and managing trees in the forest keeps them healthy and absorbing carbon.

By managing our forests we keep them healthy and safe from wildfire risk.

2 / 4

Science from the University of Washington says Washington's private working forests and wood products reduce our state's carbon emissions each year by...?

100%

12%

3 / 4

What is the best way to keep forests helping to reduce our carbon emissions?

Keeping forests healthy so trees can absorb carbon dioxide and store it in the wood

Removing the dead and dying trees in the forest to reduce wildfire risk so trees don't burn

All of the answers

Keeping forests healthy and growing by managing them

4 / 4

How does wood products help reduce global warming?

Naturally grown trees are nature's friends

Wood products store carbon which was removed from the atmosphere

Wood products goes to bat for global warming

Wood is used to build things

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The average score is 77%

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Dendrology

8 votes, 4.4 avg

309

Dendrology - the study of trees

Can you identify the scientific name of these trees?

1 / 7

Taxus brevifolia

Pacific Yew

Ponderosa Pine

Western Hemlock

2 / 7

Picea sitchensis

Sitka Spruce

Western Hemlock

Pacific Yew

3 / 7

Pseudotsuga menziesii

Sitka Spruce

Douglas-fir

Red Alder

4 / 7

Alnus rubra

Red Alder

Sitka Spruce

Western Red Cedar

5 / 7

Thuja plicata

Western Red Cedar

Douglas-fir

Sitka Spruce

6 / 7

Pinus ponderosa

Ponderosa Pine

Western Hemlock

Douglas fir

7 / 7

Tsuga heterophylla

Western Red Cedar

Pacific Yew

Western Hemlock

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Wildlife

3 votes, 5 avg

Wildlife Detective

Can you identify the wildlife in the forest?

1 / 4

How many species of amphibians live in Washington state?

There are a bunch of salamanders and frogs in Washington state

There are not any amphibians in Washington state

At least 26 species of amphibians live in Washington state

Amphibians live both on land and in water

2 / 4

What are the different ways to detect wildlife in the forest?

All of the answers

Seeing insects, slugs and animals

Finding evidence of animal droppings

Plants that have been eaten

Looking in the canopy layer for birds and nests

3 / 4

What are cavity nesters?

Birds and animals that make their homes in holes or cavities in trees, such as a woodpecker

A bird family that lives in a nest

Plants that grow out of a fallen tree

Something you get when you don't brush your teeth

4 / 4

Which of these is evidence of wildlife in the forest?

Old brick house

Plants that have been eaten, a nest, ant hill, feathers, and droppings or scat

Fenceposts and barbed wire

Fallen trees

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Type of Tree

26 votes, 4.1 avg

2022

What Type of Tree is This?

Can you identify these Washington state trees?

1 / 7

Red Alder

Ponderosa Pine

Pacific Yew

2 / 7

Sitka Spruce

Ponderosa Pine

Red Alder

3 / 7

Sitka Spruce

Ponderosa Pine

Western Hemlock

4 / 7

Western Red Cedar

Red Alder

Pacific Yew

5 / 7

Douglas-fir

Western Red Cedar

Ponderosa Pine

6 / 7

Sitka Spruce

Ponderosa Pine

Douglas-fir

7 / 7

Western Hemlock

Red Alder

Western Red Cedar

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Environment

2 votes, 4.5 avg

118

Environment

Can you answer these questions about how sustainable forestry protects the environment?

1 / 4

How is carbon stored in wood?

Healthy, growing trees pull carbon dioxide from the air and store carbon in the wood

All of the answers

A healthy, growing tree will absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen in exchange

Unhealthy trees release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

Through photosynthesis

2 / 4

Which products from the forest can easily be recycled?

Metal beams used to build skyscrapers

Food waste from the grocery store

Glass and aluminum cans

Naturally grown wood and paper products made from trees

3 / 4

Growing forests and wood products help our environment by:

All of the answers

Absorbing carbon dioxide and storing it in the wood

Natural wood products are more friendly to our environment than other building materials

Healthy, growing trees release oxygen into the atmosphere

4 / 4

Wood products are more energy efficient than other building materials because:

Wood is renewable because trees are grown by the power of the sun

All of the answers

Wood stores carbon

They generate less CO2 emissions

They produce less air and water pollution

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The average score is 76%

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Products

1 votes, 5 avg

Wood Products

Why do we need wood products?

1 / 5

What game was bigfoot playing with Kelly that is made out of wood?

Twister

Game of Life

Giant Jenga game

Monopoly

2 / 5

How much carbon does wood store?

All of the answers

Wood stores oxygen

50% of wood is stored carbon

Wood does not store carbon

3 / 5

Which of these products have wood in them?

Biofuel

All of the answers

Ice cream

Toothpaste

4 / 5

Why should we use wood products made from trees?

We all use wood every day from cardboard boxes, to wood in our furniture and homes

All of the answers

Wood products are renewable, and take less energy to make than other materials

Trees are one of nature's marvels, trees mix carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to create wood

5 / 5

Which state grows the most wood products in America?

Washington

Oregon

Nebraska

California

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The average score is 61%

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Regions

3 votes, 5 avg

239

Forest Regions

What is unique about each forest region?

1 / 5

What are the characteristics of the growing regions?

All of the answers

Animals and their habitats

Plant life

Tree species

Climate

2 / 5

What is a temperate climate?

very hot region

cold, and icy areas

moderate temperatures

3 / 5

Which region has diverse habitats because of the wide variety of climates and elevations?

Coastal forest region

Eastside forests

Lowland forest region

Mountain forest region

4 / 5

Which region features ponderosa pine?

Mountain forests

Coastal forest region

Eastside forests

Lowland forest region

5 / 5

Which region has the most rainfall, more than 10 feet per year?

Lowland forest region

Coastal forest region

Mountain forest region

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The average score is 67%

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Layers

9 votes, 4.7 avg

160

Forest Layers

See if you can answer these questions about the forest layers.

1 / 5

What are the typical insects and animals that live in the subfloor, underneath the ground?

Ants, mountain beavers, moles and worms

Cavity nesters

Birds of prey

Elk, deer, cougar and black bear

2 / 5

What is the difference between the understory and the forest floor?

The layers are all the same, there is no difference between the two

The forest floor is on the ground and the understory is above the ground

The understory shades the forest floor

The understory and the forest floor both have animals living in them

3 / 5

Which forest layer looks like it touches the sky?

The attic layer which is at the top of the house

The understory where all the branches of the trees are

Canopy layer which can reach 130 feet, as high as a 10 story building

The top layer which is the highest one

4 / 5

What type of animals live in the forest Canopy?

Birds of Prey

Earthworms

Deer and Elk

Bigfoot

5 / 5

What are the different forest layers?

Basement, first floor, second floor and attic

Canopy, understory, forest floor and subfloor

Under ground, on top of the ground, in the trees, at the top of the trees

Top, bottom and middle

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The average score is 76%

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