Forest Utilization and Engineering Reviewer [Practice Test 3]



In this page, you will find a Forestry Licensure Exam reviewer practice test which contains 50 questions related to the subject area: Forest Utilization and Engineering.

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  • Question of

    To haul logs so that they scrape or sideswipe stumps and trees.

    • siwash
    • highlead
    • snag
    • drag
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    It is a series of heavy steel links, swivels and shackles that connects the mainline and haulback.

    • butt rigging assembly
    • choker
    • guylines
    • siwash
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    The system adopted to swinging from cold decks where swinging distances are too long for a highlead swing where the swing is down-hill, or the swing road is over rough or broken terrain:

    • skyline
    • butt rigging
    • skidding
    • cold decking
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    It is a fixed relation that every distance on the map will correspond to the distance on the ground.

    • map scale
    • contour map
    • base map
    • geographic map
  • Question of

    In primary log transport the one responsible for unhooking the turns as they are in and for preparing a safe log deck.

    • rigging slinger
    • chaser
    • choker setter
    • yarder engineer
  • Question of

    The cable system or yarding is commonly used in logging forest areas ranging from level to slopes of up to:

    • 50%
    • 70%
    • 80%
    • 100%
  • Question of

    Skidding or forwarding trails leading from roadside landings back to the stump area.

    • access roads
    • strip roads
    • haul roads
    • feed roads
  • Question of

    It is a displacement of the images with respect to other objects due to the difference in their respective distances from the observer.

    • parallax difference
    • parallax
    • oblique photographs
    • vertical photographs
  • Question of

    A person responsible for the rigging crew, which consists of 2 or 3 choker setters and the chaser.

    • yarder engineer
    • rigging slinger
    • logging foreman
    • side supervisor
  • Question of

    The wood obtained from a botanical group of trees that have broad leaves is:

    • sapwood
    • softwood
    • heartwood
    • hardwood
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    This is an abnormal portion of the wood formed in limbs and inclined trunks of trees.

    • burl
    • abnormal wood
    • bump
    • reaction wood
  • Question of

    This refers to the arrangement and direction of alignment of wood elements when considered in masse:

    • grain
    • hardness
    • vessel elements
    • texture
  • Question of

    This has reference to the size and the proportional amounts of woody elements:

    • density
    • texture
    • specific gravity
    • grain
  • Question of

    The abnormal woody tissue produced in the lower side of leaning stem of softwood trees is:

    • brashy wood
    • juvenile wood
    • tension wood
    • compression wood
  • Question of

    The bubble-like outgrowths of the parenchyma cells adjacent to the vessels are called:

    • tyloses
    • gums
    • crystals
    • resins
  • Question of

    The resin obtained from dipterocarp species is collectively known as:

    • balau
    • Manila copal
    • gutta percha
    • naval stores
  • Question of

    The wood of this species has a bitter taste:

    • teak
    • batino
    • dungon
    • pagatpat
  • Question of

    The wood of this species smells like fresh beans:

    • dita
    • tindalo
    • akle
    • bitaog
  • Question of

    That part of the woody core in the tree in which some xylem cells are living and hence, physiologically active is called:

    • meristems
    • heartwood
    • sapwood
    • pith
  • Question of

    A lumber sawn in which the wide face is almost at right angle to the annual growth rings:

    • plain sawn
    • bastard sawn
    • taper sawn
    • quarter sawn
  • Question of

    A lumber sawn in which the side face is almost parallel to the wood rays:

    • plain sawn
    • wide board
    • taper sawn
    • quarter sawn
  • Question of

    The lumber contents of a log based on specific log rule:

    • lumber tally
    • mill run
    • common boards
    • log scale
  • Question of

    A fabricated assembly consisting of two or more layers of wood in which the grain direction of one is different from the other layers:

    • laminated wood
    • plywood
    • fiberboard
    • particle board
  • Question of

    In veneering, the effective distance between knife and nosebar edges is the resultant of the vertical and horizontal opening is called:

    • nosebar compression
    • knife-angle setting
    • nosebar opening
    • knife angle
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    Consists of boards bonded together, either in straight or curved form with their grain directions parallel to each other.

    • plywood
    • chipboard
    • particle board
    • laminated wood
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    It indicates the ability of the material to recover its original shape and size after the stress is removed:

    • modulus of elasticity
    • tensile strength
    • bending strength
    • anisotropy
  • Question of

    In bending wood, the magnitude of the load required to cause failure is expressed by the:

    • modulus of rupture
    • bending strength
    • collapse
    • maximum curvature
  • Question of

    Represents the moisture content at which the cell wall is completely saturated with water, but no moisture is present in the cell lumen.

    • moisture gradient
    • fiber saturation point
    • equilibrium moisture content
    • air-dry moisture
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    Water in wood that is found in cell cavities, either in liquid form or as a gas:

    • capillary water
    • free water
    • bound water
    • water vapor
  • Question of

    The balance of moisture content attained by wood at any given level of relative humidity and temperature of the surrounding atmosphere.

    • free moisture
    • moisture content
    • equilibrium moisture content
    • moisture gradient
  • Question of

    Defect that sometimes develops above the fiber saturation point when the wet heartwood of certain species is dried as evidenced by abnormal and irregular shrinkage.

    • warping
    • checks
    • honey combing
    • collapse
  • Question of

    A term applied to dry lumber with nearly uniform moisture content but characterized by the presence of residual stresses, tension in the interior of the piece and compression in the outer layers of cells:

    • collapse
    • warping
    • diamonding
    • case hardening
  • Question of

    Principal chemical constituent of the cell walls of the higher plants; complex carbohydrate occurring in the form of polymer chains.

    • cellulose
    • lignin
    • holocellulose
    • xylem
  • Question of

    Shrinkage of wood occurs as a result of:

    • change in moisture content above fiber saturation point
    • change in moisture content below fiber saturation point
    • removal of free water
    • significant moisture gradient
  • Question of

    Wood product produced by means of destructive distillation.

    • tannin
    • dye
    • rayon
    • charcoal
  • Question of

    The amount of lumber equal in volume to a board 1-inch thick, 12 inches wide and 12 inches long:

    • cubic meter
    • board foot
    • cubic foot
    • talaksan
  • Question of

    What is the moisture content of a piece of wood with the following weight? original weight = 30 grams final oven dry weight = 10 grams initial oven dry weight = 15 grams

    • 100.00% MC
    • 200.00% MC
    • 125.00% MC
    • 50.00% MC
  • Question of

    The scientific name of the now common balimbing wood species is:

    • Averrhoa quadrialata
    • Averrhoa bilimbi
    • Averrhoa carambola
    • Spondias purpurea
  • Question of

    The wood of Pinus kesiya is best distinguished/characterized by the presence of:

    • chalk-like deposits
    • gummy deposits
    • yellowish deposits
    • resin ducts
  • Question of

    Which of the following species is characterized by the presence of oil rings on the cross section of the log?

    • mayapis
    • apitong
    • almon
    • palosapis
  • Question of

    It is a tabulation of log volume of given dimensions:

    • volume table
    • log scale
    • tally sheet
    • mill tally
  • Question of

    A tabular statement consisting of the bearings and distances between corners of survey lines:

    • field data
    • technical description
    • vegetative description
    • field description
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    The outer portion of a woody stem distinguished from the inner wood by its lighter color.

    • heartwood
    • softwood
    • sapwood
    • core wood
  • Question of

    The fibers of the phloem is known as:

    • fiber tracheids
    • tracheids
    • wood fibers
    • bast fibers
  • Question of

    The pit with an overhanging margin:

    • simple pit
    • blind pit
    • bordered pit
    • scalariform pit
  • Question of

    Water found in the cell wall is known as:

    • free water
    • softwater
    • bound water
    • hard water
  • Question of

    The abnormal condition in wood that causes it to break suddenly and completely across the grain when the piece is bent slightly:

    • compression failure
    • brashness
    • tension
    • collapse
  • Question of

    It is the longitudinal warping sidewise from straight line drawn from end to end of the piece:

    • crooking
    • bowing
    • warping
    • cupping
  • Question of

    These are porous wood in which the pores show little or no variations in size and distribution.

    • semi-diffuse porous
    • even-porous
    • ring-porous
    • diffuse-porous
    • diffuse-porous
  • Question of

    The wood produced by coniferous species is collectively known as:

    • hardwood
    • sapwood
    • soft wood
    • softwood

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