quiz

Question 1

why are there different tree specie?

Answer 1

because requirements are limited, waster sunlight nutrients space

Question 2

what is competitive advantage?

Answer 2

when trees out compete for these sources

Question 3

in good conditions___ wins

Answer 3

board leafs

Question 4

in bad conditions___win

Answer 4

conifers

Question 5

what is a niche?

Answer 5

a niche is where a species requirements to grow fall between a min and a max

Question 6

where is the strongest competition?

Answer 6

where niches overlap

Question 7

first disturbance type

Answer 7

endogenous, within a community, examples flooding lightning soil compaction

Question 8

another disterbance type

Answer 8

biotic, fungi mostly

Question 9

natural disturbances (s)

Answer 9

small, like a tree fall

Question 10

natural disturbances (l)

Answer 10

large, like wind or fire

Question 11

why are distrubances good for a forest?

Answer 11

renew the ecosystems and diversify the landscape

Question 12

shifting mosaic means…

Answer 12

community’s are composed of patches in different succession rates.

Question 13

five most dangerous root diseases

Answer 13

laminated root rot
armilla root disease
annosus root disease
black stain
port orford

Question 14

armillia

Answer 14

armillira obsecora

Question 15

laminated

Answer 15

phellinus weirii

Question 16

black stain

Answer 16

ceratocystic wager

Question 17

annosus

Answer 17

fomes annosus

Question 18

port orford/ brown butt

Answer 18

phaeolus schwienitzii

Question 19

swiss need cast___ years cycle

Answer 19

3 year cycle

Question 20

chlorosis is

Answer 20

yellowing of foliage

Question 21

big cells

Answer 21

early wood

Question 22

small cells

Answer 22

late wood

Question 23

foreign disturbance

Answer 23

means that it has not happened in that area and there are no adaptations, logging,insects, pathogens

Question 24

soil compaction

Answer 24

big trees loved to death, the soil gets smothered and there is no air in the soil anymore

Question 25

natural disturbances

Answer 25

fire wind

Question 26

biological legacies

Answer 26

species that survived a disturbance and speed up change

Question 27

invasive species barriers

Answer 27

1. geographical
2. survive
3. establishment* (now an established species)
4. dispersal
5. harm

Question 28

naturalized species

Answer 28

an alien species that does not cause harm

Question 29

3 ways of controlling invasive species

Answer 29

manual labor
chemical treatments
biological controls (goats)

Question 30

how forest soils develop

Answer 30

1. climate
2. parent material
3. biota(living things, worms)
4. topography(less soil on top of mountains)
5. time