QUESTION 1
Which of the following biotic factors is associated with increasing the capacity of organisms to move across fragmented landscapes?
Distance from other landscape patches
Connectivity
Patch size
Patch shape
QUESTION 2
What is the process used by natural resource managers to collect initial data on ecosystems and landscape elements, monitor them through time, and act with appropriate management interventions when needed?
Adaptive management
Ecosystem management
Integrated management
Conservation management
QUESTION 3
The Curtis Prairie at the University of Wisconsin was an early successful restoration project for tallgrass prairie. Which of the following restoration treatments was not employed at Curtis Prairie?
Removal of undesirable herbaceous and woody plants
Prescribed fire
Planting and seedling of native species
Grazing by American bison
QUESTION 4
Which of the following practices would not be used to restore longleaf pine savanna in the American South?
Prescribed fire
Controlled grazing by cattle
Planting line seedlings in low densities at the restoration site
Thinning the forest canopy to create open conditions
QUESTION 5
Which of the following ecological services provided by conservation areas would be associated with flood control?
Provisioning services
Regulation services
Cultural services
Habitat services
QUESTION 6
Match the term to the description.
Longleaf pine
Tallgrass prairie
Ovenbird
Catbird
Cougar
A.
A species best preserved at the landscape scale.
B.
Needs prescribed fire for restoration.
C.
A forest interior species rare in fragmented landscapes.
D.
An edge species common in fragmented landscapes.
E.
Occurs in local peat moss-dominated forested wetlands
F.
Once covered over 170 million acres from Texas to Canada.
QUESTION 1
What two temperate areas of the world are seeing forest regrowth?
Australia and North America
Europe and Asia
Australia and Asia
North America and Europe
QUESTION 2
What region of South America is experiencing the greatest amount of deforestation?
Argentina
Amazon Basin
Colombia
Peru
QUESTION 3
Why does the Congo region in Africa still have significant forest cover?
Strict conservation laws.
Lack of infrastructure and political instability.
Protection by the United Nations.
Fierce lowland gorillas.
QUESTION 4
Which country in the world has greatest percentage of forest?
Canada
Russia
United States
Brazil
QUESTION 5
What is the major natural factor that is causing deforestation in western North America?
Fire
Logging
Mountain pine beetle infestation
Excess rainfall
QUESTION 6
Despite having only 5% of the world’s forest cover, which nation is effectively fighting desert encroachment by planting huge numbers of trees?
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
India
China
QUESTION 7
How many acres of forest are left in the world?
100 million
1 billion
9.9 billion
17 billion
QUESTION 8
Where in Europe is forest loss the greatest?
Sweden
Italy
Spain
France
QUESTION 9
Since 2000 forest fires and extended drought have significantly impacted forests in which country?
Australia
Canada
Congo
United States
QUESTION 10
Which region is losing an estimated 10 million acres of forest yearly?
South America
North America
Asia
Australia
QUESTION 11
Using information from the New York Times Changing Forest website, explain how forests are impacted by climate change in various places around the world and how forests themselves may offset aspects of climate change. Be specific in your examples, describing what is happening and where.
Your response should be at least 100 words in length.