Artificial pruning is:

Related Mcqs:

1. The major factors of financial as pects of pruning are:

   A. Initial cost
   B. Mortality
   C. Number of years remaining before harvest
   D. Interest rate at which pruning cost is compounded
   E. All of the above

2. Pruning can be highly profitable or extravagantly wasteful, depending on the judgment of the supervisor of the work. The important considerations are:

   A. Choice of species
   B. Choice of stand and site
   C. Growth rate, size and age of tree to be pruned
   D. Number and characteristics of tree to be pruned
   E. All of the above

3. Effect of the tree in pruning is:

   A. The contrary, properly conducted pruning is not harmful to the tree
   B. Careless pruning can, however, cause injury to the bole, leaving wounds extending through the bark into the cambium and even to the wood
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

4. The major steps of natural pruning is:

   A. Killing of the branches
   B. Shedding of the dead branches
   C. Occlusion or healing over of the branch stub
   D. All of the above

5. Which of the following is an artificial ecosystem?

   A. Rice-field
   B. Forest
   C. Grassland
   D. Lake

6. What are the objects of artificial regeneration?

   A. Supplementing natural regeneration
   B. Replacing natural regeneration
   C. Afforestation
   D. Introduction of valuable exotics
   E. All of the above

7. What is meant by the term artificial regeneration?

   A. If it is achieved naturally without involvement of man effort
   B. If it is achieved by mechanically
   C. If it is achieved through the involvement of human efforts
   D. None of these

8. What are merits of artificial regeneration?

   A. Quicker results
   B. Full and more even stocking
   C. Species composition can be regulated
   D. Concentration of all phases of forest work
   E. All of the above

9. Artificial reseeding is prescribed in which circumstances:

   A. When natural vegetation cannot recover within a short period and there are few desirable species
   B. In grassy plains
   C. In flooded areas
   D. None of these

10. Selection thinning is:

    A. In principle from the two methods already discussed
    B. The dominant trees are removed in order to stimulate the growth of the trees of the lower crown classes
    C. The same kind of vigorous trees those are favoured in crown
    D. All of the above