Forester Licensure Examination 2007 Forest Resource Management Flashcards
Tabular presentation of the growth pattern of a managed, even-aged stand is called ______.
a. Yield table
b. Stand and stock table
c. Growth table
d. Increment table
a. Yield table
It is an application of business methods and technical forestry.
a. Forest mensuration
b. Forest management
c. Forest inventory
d. Forest finance
b. Forest management
Line AB measures a distance of 50 meters. In walking through the distance you made 55, 58, 56, 58, and 56 paces. What is your pace factor?
a. 0.88 meters/pace
b. 8.8 meters/pace
c. 0.088 meters/pace
d. 1.132 meters/pace
a. 0.88 meters/pace
What is the first step in undertaking a watershed management planning?
a. Participatory planning
b. Preparatory planning
c. Synchronized planning
d. Accurate planning
b. Preparatory planning
What is the minimum number of healthy seed trees (40 cm DBH and larger) per hectare to be left and properly distributed over the set-up in a pine forest?
a. at least 10
b. 50 -15
c. 16 - 20
d. 5 - 10
c. 16 - 20
A water erosion is caused by the movement of water on the soil surface. What is the type of water erosion where the soil particles are dislodged to a lower elevation through the action of raindrops hitting the soil surface?
a. Rill erosion
b. Sheet erosion
c. Gully erosion
d. Splash erosion
d. Splash erosion
Under existing foresty regulations, timber licensed holders are required tot submit aerial photographs of their respective concessions. What is the standard scale of aerial photographs that is needed for the purposes of this regulation?
a. 1:10,000
b. 1:15,000
c. 1:20,000
d. 1:25,000
d. 1:25,000
A rangeland must obtain a maximum production and that the maximum number of animal units that a given area is capable of supporting without injury to soil and vegetation is known as ______.
a. Grazing management
b. Forage capacity
c. Forage management
d. Grazing capacity
d. Grazing capacity
What is the process of determining the elevation of points at short measured intervals along a fixed line?
a. Profile leveling
b. Direct leveling
c. Trigonometric leveling
d. Differential leveling
a. Profile leveling
In a forest stand, there are older trees that overtop the more preferred individual trees. What is that silvicultural operation to be conducted in a timber stand tath parts the sapling stage?
a. Liberation cutting
b. Clear cutting
c. Release cutting
d. Thinnig operation
a. Liberation cutting
It is a method of sampling where each item or individual in the population has an equal and independent chance of being included in the measurement.
a. Random sampling
b. None of these
c. Stratified sampling
d. Representative sampling
a. Random sampling
Which of the following does NOT affect forest evaluation?
a. Management strategy
b. Product size
c. Site quality
d. Market value of the product
b. Product size
It is an indirect method of evaluating site quality of a given plantation.
a. Use of historical yield records
b. Use of stand volume data
c. Use of topographic, climatic, and edaphic factors
d. Use of periodic height growth
c. Use of topographic, climatic, edaphic factors
What is the result in aerial photography when two vertical photographs are taken from successive camera stations along a single flight line?
a. Overlaped photos
b. Sterio pairs
c. Three-dimension photos
d. Superimposed photos
b. Sterio pairs
One important feature of SIFMA is transferability, where transfer conveyance and sale is allowed from the original recipient to any person, cooperative/association qualified to participate under this program. What does this mean?
a. Whole area
b. 1/3 of the area only
c. 1/2 of the area only
d. Whole area or part of the area only
d. Whole area or part of the area only
It is a market situation where there is one seller and one specific product.
a. Pure competitive
b. Pure monopoly
c. Monopolistic competition
d. Monopoly
b. Pure monopoly
it is the capitalized value of periodic income from timber and considered the value of bare forest land.
a. Forest Net Value
b. Marginal Income Value
c. Stumpage Series Value
d. Soil/Land Expectation Value
d. Soil/Land Expectation Value
Which of the following factors affects the climatic behavior of a watershed?
a. Shape
b. Soil characteristics
c. Solar radiation
d. Slope
c. Solar radiation
Which of the following is NOT considered as foundation of forest management?
a. Forest sustainability
b. Forest growth and yield
c. Forest structure
d. Forest organization and valuation
a. Forest sustainability
This is an instrument used for measuring the area of any plane figure by tracing its boundary.
a. Planimeter
b. Tracing cloth
c. Speedometer
d. Protractor
a. Planimeter
There are essential requisites that makes tree planting successful. Which of the following can be the first requisite to make it successful?
a. The roots must come in contact with the soil.
b. The roots should be spread out in very natural manner.
c. Regular watering of the planted seedling.
d. Seeeddling must be planted at the same depth they occupied in the nursery.
a. The roots must come in contact with the soil.
It is the delineation of an area both in the map and on the ground the extent and location of a smaller unit area for operation including the roadways and log landing.
a. Set-up layout
b. Set-up location
c. Set-up selection
d. Set-up establishment
d. Set-up establishment
The forest charge per cubic meter of timber cut in forestlands is equivalent to:
a. 30% of the actual FOB market price
b. 25% of the actual FOB market price
c. 15% of the actual FOB market price
d. 20% of the actual FOB market price
b. 25% of the actual FOB market price
What law mandates the adoption of community-based forest management as a national strategy to ensure sustainable development of forestlands resources?
a. EO 292
b. EO 263
c. EO 192
d. EO 247
b. EO 263
Which of the following trees is classified according to crown classes?
a. Dominant
b. Standard
c. Sampling
d. Seedling
a. Dominant
What part of the plant where the height growth of a tree occurs?
a. Shoot apex
b. Heartwood
c. Lateral meristem
d. Apical meristem
d. Apical meristem
What are the basal area of the small and big diameters respectively if the small and big diameters are measured 40 cm and 55 cm, respectively?
a. 0.1257 and 0.2376 sq. m.
b. 1257 and 2376 sq. m.
c. 1.257 and 2.376 sq. m.
d. 12.57 and 23.76 sq. m.
a. 0.1257 and 0.2376 sq. m.
It is a system of forest management wherein a given tract of land is stratified for timber production, recreation, protection, agro-forestry, and other uses.
a. Sustainable forest management
b. Forest management
c. Mulitple-use management
d. Watershed management
c. Multiple-use management
If the scale of the map is 1:15,200, what is its equivalent in km/cm?
a. 152
b. 0.152
c. 15.2
d. 1520
b. 0.152
The removal of live or dead branches from standing trees in the plantation.
a. Hedging
b. Toppings
c. Prunning
d. Trimming
c. Prunning
Whatis the benefit-cost ratio after 10 years given the following data?
Discounted cost = P49,495.00
Discounted return = P92,783.00
a. 18.7
b. 0.87
c. 1.87
d. 0.53
c. 1.87
Which of the following areas is NOT prohibited for industrial forest management activities?
a. Areas or lands subject of CADC/CALC
b. Areas or lands established under the NIPAS Law
c. Areas verified by the DENR to be actually occupied by indigenous cultural communities
d. Open and denuded lands, brushlands, degraded residual natural forest
d. Open and denuded lands, brushlands, degraded residual natural forest
When forest stands are established from seed. What are the seed source usually?
a. Seeds stored in the organic layer of the soil
b. Seeds produced from trees left in the area
c. Seeds from adjacent areas
d. All of these
d. All of these
Which part of the industrial forest management plan includes the annual plantation establishment programs?
a. Background information
b. Technical resources
c. Development objectives
d. Development plan
d. Development plan
A stand density is a quantitative indicator of the distribution of trees in a given forest stand. Which of the following is NOT a measure of stand density?
a. Tree spacing
b. Age and species
c. Basal area
d. Number and volume of trees per hectare
b. Age and species
An aircraft is flying over a level ground area with a flying height of 13,400 ft and the base length (absolute parallax for the base of the tree) is 3.50 in. The parallax difference is 0.015 in. What is the height of the tree?
a. 60 feet
b. 57 feet
c. 57.8 feet
d. 56 feet
b. 57 feet
if an area is devoid of vegetation and forest cover, what system of forest renewal is employed?
a. Afforestation
b. Restoration
c. Reforestation
d. Rehabilitation
a. Afforestation
Which of the following factors does NOT affect the growth of the forest stand?
a. Species
b. Site quality
c. Forest density
d. Periodic annual increment
d. Periodic annual increment
It is part of the public domain which has been reserved under LOI 917 as amended and was further strengthened by the NIPAS Law as it restricts public use in the interest of national welfare and security.
a. Wilderness area
b. Critical watershed
c. Forest reserve
d. National forest park
a. Wilderness area
The allowable cut formula for Philippine residual forest is implemented under what DENR administrative order?
a. DAO 02, Series of 192
b. MC 12, Series of 1993
c. DAO 11, Series of 2000
d. DAO 12, Series of 1992
DAO 12, Series of 1992