Forestry and Plant Conservation Trivia

1. The very last tree bearing a particular cultivar of what fruit was found at the remnants of an orchard on Bardsey Island, Wales?

From Quiz One

Answer: apple

Bardsey Island has long been associated with religious activities. An abbey was built there around the year 516 and the island is the burial place of many saints. The monks tended to an apple orchard, but it and the abbey were abandoned in the 13th Century. A small population remained on the island but it took until 1998 for somebody to realize that a lone tree near the remains of the abbey was was producing an apple that was unlike any other known to exist. Cuttings from that one tree have since been propagated and the Bardsey Island apple is in no particular danger of dying out any time soon.

From Quiz Adventures in the Rainforest!

Answer: Canopy

The emergent layer is where very few trees are. These trees are extremely tall and have surpassed the canopy layer. The canopy is home to the majority of the biggest trees in the rainforest. The canopy is often compared to an umbrella, because the big trees create an arch over the rainforest. The understorey is beneath the canopy. This layer is where the smaller trees and shrubs grow. The forest floor is of course, the soil. This is where a lot of the insects, dispersed seeds and dead plants/animals are.

From Quiz Rainforest Potpourri

Answer: Alaska

There are actually rainforests in Alaska and Canada! They aren't tropical forests, which is what most of us envision when we hear the term. They are temperate rainforests, and they occur in mild climates that receive lots of rain. About half of them are in North America, on the west coasts of the USA and Canada.

From Quiz History of Forestry

Answer: John Wesley Powell

From Quiz Introduction to Forestry

Answer: 90

Only 10 percent of that land is farmable.

From Quiz Forestry

Answer: Sugar Maple

There is a slight debate between Red and Sugar Maple but sources say Sugar.

From Quiz One

Answer: Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew

Campions are a widely-distributed flower in the northern hemisphere, but the Gibraltar campion was only found in Gibraltar. It dwindled away and was presumed extinct, but in 1994 a hiker found one along the cliffs of Upper Rock Nature Reserve. The last remaining individual of this plant with small white flowers has since been propagated, and its seeds have been added to the Millennium Seed Bank coordinated by the Royal Gardens at Kew. Kew also keeps the type specimen of this unique flower, and it is one of many very rare plants that they have helped propagate.

From Quiz Adventures in the Rainforest!

Answer: Temperate

Temperate rainforests are found in Oceania, North America, Europe and parts of Asia. Tropical rainforests are mostly found in Africa and South America, South East Asia and countries near the equator. Trees in temperate rainforests usually live longer because the climate is cooler, and there is less decay. Tropical rainforests have a wider variety of fauna and flora. A similarity between the two rainforets is that they receive a lot of rainfall every year.

From Quiz History of Forestry

Answer: Franklin B. Hough

He also helped to educate the public, private land owners and members of government about the forests.

From Quiz Introduction to Forestry

Answer: Bernard Edward Fernow

Fernow was a German forester who came to the US in 1876. He wrote books about forest management.

From Quiz Forestry

Answer: Quercus rubra

From Quiz One

Answer: timber

Like many remote locations, St Helena featured a long list of unique wildlife. The St Helena redwood was a large, beautiful tree that was in particular found good for use as timber and in tanning. Contemporary accounts suggest that overexploitation was common. By the 18th Century, only a few dozen remained, and most of those could be found in gardens that settlers had planted. Despite this, they declined further and by the 20th Century, one was left. Intervention resulted in the collection of seeds, and a number of these redwoods now exist. Unfortunately, it seems that the genetic bottleneck weakened them, and those that remain may never be as strong as their impressive ancestors.

From Quiz Adventures in the Rainforest!

Answer: 6%

Rainforests used to cover 14% of the Earth's surface. This is because the world's population was smaller, so fewer resources were needed. In 1996, this 14% fluctuated to a shocking 6%. The population was growing and logging had become more prolific. Sadly, every second, an area of rainforest the size of a football field is cut down.

From Quiz Rainforest Potpourri

Answer: Tongass National Forest

The Tongass National Forest in Alaska is a rainforest on two islands. The National Forest was established by Teddy Roosevelt in 1907 and claims to be the largest intact (i.e., not tampered with by man) temperate rainforest in the world. It is part of a rainforest environment that runs down the western coast of North America from Alaska to Oregon. Temperate rainforests cover just 0.2 percent of the Earth at this writing in 2007. They exist in only a few places: the coasts of New Zealand, Tasmania, Patagonia and western North America.

From Quiz History of Forestry

Answer: John Muir

He was a leader in preserving our forests. He believed that the forests should be saved because of their natural beauty.

From Quiz Introduction to Forestry

Answer: 1905

The 1905 Transfer Act transfered lands from the Department of Interior to the Department of Agriculture.

From Quiz One

Answer: male

In 1895, a cluster of four stems belonging to a single cycad was discovered on a cliff in Ngoya Forest, South Africa. In 1908, it was classified as a new species. The four stems were eventually taken and sent to different parts of the globe. Two of them died, but the other two survived, and many propagations have been made from the original four stems. The catch in propagating the only member of this species is that it is male, and no female individuals have ever been seen. However, offsets -- shoots from the original plants -- have been highly successful at creating numerous clones of the original. Fertile hybrids with similar species have also been made.

From Quiz Adventures in the Rainforest!

Answer: The world's largest pharmacy

Over one quarter of herbal/natural medicines have come from the rainforests. The periwinkle was used to increase the survival chances of children with leukaemia. The trumpet tree is used, mostly in Latin America, to treat respiratory illnesses. The cocoa tree can also help people with illnesses. Chocolate comes from these trees, and recent study shows that dark chocolate can help reduce blood pressure and lower cholesterol level in adults. However, as we all know, chocolate also has its negative impacts.

From Quiz Rainforest Potpourri

Answer: Plants that contain nitrogenous substances that are useful in making medicines

Biochemists believe alkaloids help protect plants from disease and insects. Many alkaloids have medicinal value to humankind.

From Quiz History of Forestry

Answer: Benjamin Harrison

Harrison set aside 14 federal reserves, totaling 13 million acres. Yellowstone was originally managed by the cavalry. He died before his plans came to fruition, with Ulysses Grant signing the act creating the park into law.

From Quiz Introduction to Forestry

Answer: triangular

Two of the three sides of pine needles face downward to prevent water loss.

From Quiz Forestry

Answer: Pin Cherry

From Quiz One

Answer: goats

Three Kings Islands are a set of islands off the northwest peninsula of New Zealand. In 1945, a professor roaming the island to help rid it of pestilent goats discovered a unique tree which has since been named the Three Kings kaikomako. Cuttings were taken from the tree and eventually allowed for a viable population to be grown. One of the things that has hampered the propagation of this lone tree was that it is suspected to be female (and thus needed a male), but self-fertilizing cuttings taken from it have made this questionable. It has since become widespread in cultivation.

From Quiz Adventures in the Rainforest!

Answer: Mayans

Mayans were an ancient civilization that lived in the rainforests of Mesoamerica which is now known as five different countries: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala,and Belize. The Mayans are one of the most fascinating civilizations. They practised human sacrificing as an offering to their Gods, and they created very accurate charts which were used to predict eclipses and other astronomical events. Nobody really knows why they disappeared. The fall of this great civilization is still a mystery.

From Quiz Rainforest Potpourri

Answer: The Southeast Asian rainforests

The Southeast Asian rainforests have been continuously in existence for the longest span of time. They date to to the Pleistocene Epoch, about 70 million years ago. It is thought they owe their longevity to the fact that they straddle the equator and are continguous to more water than rainforests on larger land masses.

From Quiz History of Forestry

Answer: Bernard Edward Fernow

Fernow also wrote books about forest management and was the first director of the department of interior. He established the first forestry college in the US at Cornell.

From Quiz Introduction to Forestry

Answer: All trees are cut at the same time

This may be easier to manage, but foresters are moving away from this method because of its environmental impacts and general ugliness.

From Quiz Forestry

Answer: Slash

From Quiz One

Answer: coppice

A coppice is what happens when a tree is cut down to the ground to stimulate growth. This can be done naturally or intentionally, and in the case of the Wollemi pine happens naturally. A few small stands of these pines were discovered by a ranger in part of New South Wales, Australia in 1994. On further study, they were found to be unknown to science, with the closest-related plants being two million-year-old fossils. The handful of surviving trees are all genetically identical, suggesting that at one point the population had dropped down to only one. While their exact location has been undisclosed to the public, water mold found at their location suggests that the place has been compromised.

From Quiz Rainforest Potpourri

Answer: The Australian rainforest in Queensland

Climatic types of rainforest found in Queensland: Tropical Subtropical Dry Warm temperate Cool temperate

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