pbio exam 4

Question 1

Smokey

Answer 1

advertising campaign to prevent forest fire ignition

Question 2

Succession

Answer 2

progression of plant species on disturbed ground culminating in forest

Question 3

Mosaic

Answer 3

forests patches of many ages and histories combined into a single forest

Question 4

Suburb

Answer 4

a modern land use which competes for land with regrowing forest

Question 5

Lawn

Answer 5

an artificial grass community which keeps forest away from a house

Question 6

Crown fire

Answer 6

a severe fire spreading through the upper canopy of a forest

Question 7

Sequoia sempervirens

Answer 7

largest forest tree ; threatened in Kings Canyon 1955 fire

Question 8

Ed Pulaski

Answer 8

example of an early fire ranger in the West (hero of 1910 fire)_

Question 9

Moose

Answer 9

large animal, formerly extinct in the Eastern US, now returning as forest habitat regrows

Question 10

Light burning

Answer 10

intentional burning of forests by farmers in the SW and SE in defiance of USFS