Forest Harvesting Systems - Lecture 1

Question 1

How many products are made of wood?

Answer 1

10,000

Question 2

What do forests help with controlling?

Answer 2

Flooding and erosion

Question 3

Forest are able to mitigate the effects of what?

Answer 3

Pollution

Question 4

What is an unsustainable forestry practice?

Answer 4

Cutting more than you should

Question 5

What is a high-grading forestry practice?

Answer 5

Taking the best, leaving the worst

Question 6

How much round wood (what is cut int he world) is used world wide?

Answer 6

2.1 billion tons

Question 7

How much industrial roundwood is used world wide?

Answer 7

1 billion tons

Question 8

Wood is a…

Answer 8

extremally versatile raw material

Question 9

Wood can be processed to finish products with…

Answer 9

the input of very little energy

Question 10

The production and use of wood result in less-detrimental impacts to…

Answer 10

the environment than is the case to alternative materials ie. plastic, metals, cement

Question 11

The product of harvest - wood -

Answer 11

is renewable