Sample Practice Forestry Test—Arkansas Envirothon

1.      Three species of pine native to Arkansas are:

1. red, lodgepole, loblolly
2. white, scotch, slash
3. shortleaf, longleaf, loblolly
4. shortleaf, loblolly, slash

2.      There are ____ families of oaks in Arkansas.

A. 2                 B. 4                C. 6                       D. 8

3.      A cousin of the sugar maple found in Arkansas that exfoliates it bark and reveals a lighter whitish-green underlying bark is the ______.

A. red maple     B. boxelder       C. possumhaw         D. sycamore

4.      Shortleaf pines have cones that are 4 ½ inches long, at a minimum.

A. True               B. False

 5.      The common name for Maclura pomifera is _____

 A. osage orange       B. bois d’Arc     C. hedge apple tree    D. all of the above

6.      Xylem is part of the coloring agents in a tree leaf.

A. True                       B. False

7.      The material responsible for the green color in a tree leaf is _____.

 

A.  carotene      B. cholorphyll         C. choloroplasts         D. carcinogens

 

 

8.      There are five needles to a bundle of needles on a shortleaf pine.

 

A. True                B. False

 

 

9.      A butressed base on the trunk of a tree is an indication of conditions the tree is growing in.

 

A. True                      B. False

 

 

10.  The leaves on a cedar tree (Juniperus virginiana) are referred to as ____.

 

A. cones         B. stringy          C. needles           D. lobed

 

 

11.  The  ____ tree is the state tree of Arkansas.

 

A. dogwood      B. sassafras       C. sycamore          D.  pine

 

 

12.  The fruit on an oak are referred to by what name ____.

 

A. cones        B. galls           C. acorns             D. soft mast

 

 

13.  The growths, on the roots of a cypress tree, that protrude above the surface of the ground or the water in which it is growing are referred to as _____.

 

A. cloroplasts    B. gallinues     C. coniferous     D.  knees

 

 

14.  Wavy, serrate, dentate, and doubly serrate can all refer to the ___ of a leaf.

 

A. surface    B. stipule   C. petiole    D. edge

 

 

15.  The ____ is the proper term for the “stem” of a leaf.

 

A. stipule    B. radius    C. ocra   D. petiole

 

 

16.  The two names in a tree’s scientific name refers to the ___ and ___.

 

A. family, genus       B. genus, owner    C. genus, species   D. genus, order

 

 

17.  What species of pine found in Arkansas has needles twice as long as those of the loblolly pine, on an average.

 

A. slash         B. virginia       C. scotch        D. longleaf  

18.  This tree is a common pioneer species, like the cottonwood, that is fast growing and occurs on sandbars, stream edges, swamps, and islands in Arkansas.  What is this tree species?

 

A. swamp chestnut oak      B. cypress     C. black willow      D. persimmon

 

 

19.  The position at which a leaf appears on a stem is referred to as the _____.

 

A. petiole      B. stipule      C. phloem      D. node

 

 

20.  When a deciduous leaf falls from a tree in autumn, it leaves behind a spot on the limb that is called the _______.

 

A . crenate blade           B. stipule spot         C.  leaflet rachis      D. leaf scar

 

 

21.  Hickories and pecans were important food crop trees to the Native Americans.

 

A. True                        B.  False

 

 

22.  Wetlands always have tree growing on them.

 

A. True                         B. False

 

 

23.  The leaves of oaks in Arkansas are all simple and alternate.

 

A.  True                          B.. False

 

 

24.  The word alba in a tree’s name, as in Quercus alba, refers to what identifying characteristic of the wood of the tree.

 

A. strength             B. thickness       C. smell           D. color

 

 

25.  Tree seedlings should be planted while they are actively growing.

 

A. True                     B.   False