SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Carpentry Wood And Lumber Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
industries
,
carpentry
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Any deviation from straightness in a piece of lumber.
Green lumber
Shake
Annular rings
Warp
2. Wood from coniferous (cone-bearing) trees.
Plain-sawed
Softwood
Coniferous
Hardwoods
3. The moisture content of wood when the cell cavities are empty but the cell walls are still saturated.
Cup
Fiber-saturation point
Grade
Wane
4. The best grade of hardwood lumber.
Shake
Lumber grades
Equilibrium moisture content
First and seconds
5. The point at which the moisture content of wood is equal to the moisture content of the surrounding air.
Hardwoods
Annular rings
Hardwoods
Equilibrium moisture content
6. Lumber that has not been dried to a suitable moisture content.
Board
Medullary ray
Moisture content
Green lumber
7. The rings seen when viewing a cross-section of a tree trunk; each ring constitutes one year of tree growth.
No. 1 common
Wane
Annular rings
Green lumber
8. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.
Coniferous
Lignin
Moisture content
Seasoned lumber
9. Wood used for framing having a nominal thickness of 2'
Grade
Sapwood
Dimension lumber
Board
10. Lumber defect in wood.
Heartwood
Green lumber
No. 1 common
Twist
11. A defect in lumber caused by cutting through a branch of limb embedded in the log.
Knots
Sapwood
Sapwood
Stickering
12. A layer just inside the bark of a tree where new cells are formed.
Annular rings
Sapwood
Cambium layer
Juvenile wood
13. Machine that makes moldings or a thin strip placed between layers of lumber to create an air space for drying.
Timber
Seasoned lumber
Stickering
Moisture meter
14. A type of warp in which the edge of a lumber is not straight.
Shake
Equilibrium moisture content
Pitch pocket
Crook
15. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.
Crook
First and seconds
Board
Cambium layer
16. Bands of cells radiating from the cambium layer to the pith of a tree to transport nourishment toward the center.
Knots
Medullary ray
Bow
Cup
17. Numbers and letters used to rank wood according to quality.
Lumber grades
Bow
Coniferous
Warp
18. The moisture content of wood when the cell cavities are empty but the cell walls are still saturated.
Air-dried
Board
Grade
Fiber-saturation point
19. The level of the ground: also identifies the quality of the lumber.
Grade
Board
Fiber-saturation point
Warp
20. A type of warp in which the side of a board is curved from edge to edge.
Air-dried
Cup
Moisture content
Hardwoods
21. A method of sawing lumber that produces flat grain.
Board foot
Plain-sawed
Seasoned lumber
Cup
22. A type of warp in which the side of lumber is curved from end to end.
Lumber
Board
Kiln-dried
Bow
23. A device used to determine the moisture content of wood.
Moisture meter
Kiln-dried
Warp
Lumber
24. Bark - or lack of wood - on the edge of lumber.
Lignin
Dimension lumber
Wane
Warp
25. The wood in the inner part of a tree - usually darker and containing inactive cells.
Bow
Warp
Cup
Heartwood
26. Lumber that has not been dried to a suitable moisture content.
Juvenile wood
Sapwood
Green lumber
Moisture meter
27. The portion of wood that contains the first seven to fifteen growth rings of a log. They are located in the pith.
Juvenile wood
Board foot
Softwood
Coniferous
28. The small - soft core at the center of a tree.
Pitch pocket
Moisture meter
Pith
Lumber
29. Any deviation from straightness in a piece of lumber.
First and seconds
Green lumber
No. 1 common
Warp
30. A type of warp in which the edge of a lumber is not straight.
Shake
Crook
Lumber
First and seconds
31. The outer part of a tree just beneath the bark containing active cells.
Medullary ray
Sapwood
Moisture meter
Juvenile wood
32. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.
Deciduous
Kiln-dried
Shake
Board
33. The rings seen when viewing a cross-section of a tree trunk; each ring constitutes one year of tree growth.
Coniferous
Fiber-saturation point
Medullary ray
Annular rings
34. Lumber dried by placing it in huge ovens called kilns.
Kiln-dried
Bow
Lumber
Lumber grades
35. Lumber that has been seasoned by drying in the air.
No. 1 common
Air-dried
Sapwood
Heartwood
36. A layer just inside the bark of a tree where new cells are formed.
Knots
Cambium layer
Grade
Lumber
37. A device used to determine the moisture content of wood.
Pith
Moisture meter
Annular rings
Board
38. Wood that is cut from the log to form boards - planks - and timbers.
Moisture meter
Lumber
Juvenile wood
Equilibrium moisture content
39. A method of sawing lumber parallel to the medullary rays to produce edge-grain lumber.
Board
Plain-sawed
Board
Quarter-sawed
40. The amount of moisture in wood expressed as a percentage of the dry weight.
Cup
Air-dried
Crook
Moisture content
41. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.
Lumber
Sawyer
Seasoned lumber
Stickering
42. The level of the ground: also identifies the quality of the lumber.
Grade
First and seconds
Juvenile wood
Medullary ray
43. The wood of broad-leaved dictyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers).
Fiber-saturation point
Softwood
Hardwoods
Moisture meter
44. Numbers and letters used to rank wood according to quality.
Deciduous
Pith
Lumber grades
Stickering
45. Wood that is cut from the log to form boards - planks - and timbers.
Plain-sawed
Crook
Dimension lumber
Lumber
46. A defect in lumber caused by a separation of the annular ring; also - a type of wood shingle.
Shake
Sawyer
Seasoned lumber
Dimension lumber
47. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.
Quarter-sawed
Coniferous
Cup
Stickering
48. A type of warp in which the side of a board is curved from edge to edge.
Pith
Hardwoods
Stickering
Cup
49. Trees that shed leaves each year.
Plain-sawed
Deciduous
Coniferous
Kiln-dried
50. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.
Lumber grades
Heartwood
Sawyer
Knots