forestry

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

What is the forest conservation act?

Back (Answer)

1991 Act to reduce the number of forested areas cleared for different types of development in Maryland.

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What is the roadside tree act?

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1914 developed to ensure the compatability of roadside trees with an efficient and dependable public utility system

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Wha is the reforestation act?

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1988 For every one or more acres of forest destroyed they must replant within one year

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What is the critical area act?

Back (Answer)

1984 Requires the first one hundred feet of land around banks to be left alone ad managed

Front (Question)

Name the succession stages in order.

Back (Answer)

meadow shrub young forest mature forest climax forest

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What plants, insects and animals are present in the meadow stage?

Back (Answer)

grasses sedges forbs crickets beetles grasshoppers songbirds rabbits groundhogs mice and voles

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What plants, insects and animals are present in the shrub stage?

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sweet gum pine cherry sassafras rodents fox deer raccoon weasel

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What plants, insects and animals are present in the young forest stage?

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oak maple sweet gum some pines squirrels opossum chipmunks owls woodpeckers

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What plants, insects and animals are present in the mature forest stage?

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deciduous trees shrubs and herbaceous plants

#10

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What plants, insects and animals are present in the climax forest stage?

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Fox, bobcat, and wolves termites and carpenter ants

#11

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What natural factors affect forest sucession?

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volcanoes hurricanes flood wildfire climate change windstorms

#12

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What human factors affect forest sucession?

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farming tree harvesting soil erosion road building introduced species fire

#13

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What is primary sucession?

Back (Answer)

succession where no soil exists

#14

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What is secondary sucession?

Back (Answer)

succession where soil is already present

#15

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What are lichens and other early arriving organisms known as?

Back (Answer)

pioneer species

#16

Front (Question)

What are lichens?

Back (Answer)

a combination of algae and fungi that lives on and breaks down rock

#17

Front (Question)

What is the age range of a meadow?

Back (Answer)

0-5

#18

Front (Question)

What is the age range of a shrub?

Back (Answer)

6-25

#19

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What is the age range of a young forest?

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26-50

#20

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What is the age range of a mature forest?

Back (Answer)

51-150

#21

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What is the age range of a climax forest?

Back (Answer)

150-300

#22

Front (Question)

What is an example of mast?

Back (Answer)

acorns

#23

Front (Question)

What are snags?

Back (Answer)

dead trees

#24

Front (Question)

What is the removal of all trees from an area; the most common but controversial type of logging?

Back (Answer)

clear cutting