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Exploring Forest Ecosystems

This quiz challenges your understanding of forest ecosystems, their classifications, and the factors that influence them, through a series of engaging questions and scenarios.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Even, dense old-growth stand of beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) prepared to be regenerated by their saplings in the understory, in the Brussels part of the Sonian Forest.   Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.   The Fatu Hiva rainforest in Polynesia.   Coastal Douglas fir woodland in northwest Oregon.

2 Although a forest is classified primarily by trees a forest ________ is defined intrinsically with additional species such as fungi.

3 This vegetation is variously called open taiga, open ________ woodland, and forest tundra.

4 There are also many natural factors that can cause changes in forests over time including ________, insects, diseases, weather, competition between species, etc.

5 What does the following picture show?  Loss of old growth forest in the United States; 1620, 1850, and 1920 maps: These maps represent only virgin forest lost. Some regrowth has occurred but not to the age, size or extent of 1620 due to population increases and food cultivation. From William B. Greeley's, The Relation of Geography to Timber Supply, Economic Geography, 1925, vol. 1, p. 1-11. Source of "Today" map: compiled by George Draffan from roadless area map in The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States, by Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke (Harmony Books, 1992).   Mixed deciduous forest in Stara Planina, Bulgaria.   Taiga forest near Saranpaul in the northeast Ural mountains, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Trees include Picea obovata (dominant on right bank), Larix sibirica, Pinus sibirica, and Betula pendula.

6 ________, a term often used interchangeably with old growth forest

7 ________ contains mainly natural patterns of biodiversity in established seral patterns, and they contain mainly species native to the region and habitat.

8 Smaller areas of woodland in cities may be managed as ________, sometimes within public parks.

9 Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 by the ________

10 The two major zones in which these ________ occur are in the boreal region and in the seasonally dry tropics.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Forest Kingfisher (pictured) of Australian forest and Melaleuca swampland, burrows its nest in termite mounds in trees up to 12 metres (39 ft) above the ground.
  • Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest.
  • the Magellanic subpolar forests of South America are the world's southernmost forests.
  • the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela.
  • the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year.
  • Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest.
  • Joint Forest Management between villagers and the government of India was started to prevent theft of forest resources at Arabari, but now accounts for the management of at least 14 million hectares in 27 states.
  • Dyrehaven, a forest park outside Copenhagen, Denmark, has 15 entrances, all with characteristic red gates (pictured).
  • Gotjawal Forest, a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea, consists of a rocky area of aa lava.
  • until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests.
  • Hood Mountain in California has high canopy mixed oak forests, pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop, and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it.
  • Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec's forests at the time of colonization.
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