SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
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.
Coniferous
Grade
Warp
Plain-sawed
2. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.
Kiln-dried
Coniferous
Softwood
Pitch pocket
3. Lumber defect in wood.
Moisture content
Wane
First and seconds
Twist
4. The point at which the moisture content of wood is equal to the moisture content of the surrounding air.
Seasoned lumber
Equilibrium moisture content
Kiln-dried
Fiber-saturation point
5. The wood in the inner part of a tree - usually darker and containing inactive cells.
Air-dried
Sapwood
Pitch pocket
Heartwood
6. Lumber that has been seasoned by drying in the air.
Air-dried
Equilibrium moisture content
Pitch pocket
Sapwood
7. A type of warp in which the edge of a lumber is not straight.
Crook
Knots
Board
Hardwoods
8. The natural glue in wood that holds together the wood cells and fibers.
Warp
Shake
Plain-sawed
Lignin
9. A defect in lumber caused by a separation of the annular ring; also - a type of wood shingle.
Shake
Bow
Board
Moisture content
10. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.
Fiber-saturation point
Equilibrium moisture content
Sawyer
Pith
11. Lumber that has been dried to a suitable moisture content.
No. 1 common
Deciduous
Seasoned lumber
Heartwood
12. Large pieces of lumber over 5' in thickness and width.
Board
Grade
Timber
Lumber grades
13. Lumber that has not been dried to a suitable moisture content.
Sawyer
Board foot
Bow
Green lumber
14. Wood used for framing having a nominal thickness of 2'
Dimension lumber
Medullary ray
Plain-sawed
Equilibrium moisture content
15. Machine that makes moldings or a thin strip placed between layers of lumber to create an air space for drying.
Moisture meter
Quarter-sawed
Stickering
Softwood
16. Lumber defect in wood.
Shake
Medullary ray
Twist
Dimension lumber
17. A type of warp in which the side of lumber is curved from end to end.
Fiber-saturation point
Sawyer
Wane
Bow
18. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.
Equilibrium moisture content
Equilibrium moisture content
Pitch pocket
Sawyer
19. A lower grade of hardwood lumber.
Medullary ray
No. 1 common
Cup
Air-dried
20. A type of warp in which the side of lumber is curved from end to end.
Bow
Annular rings
First and seconds
Warp
21. Wood that is cut from the log to form boards - planks - and timbers.
Lignin
Knots
Lumber
Lumber grades
22. A device used to determine the moisture content of wood.
Annular rings
Air-dried
Moisture meter
Dimension lumber
23. Wood that is cut from the log to form boards - planks - and timbers.
Lumber
Deciduous
Wane
Grade
24. Numbers and letters used to rank wood according to quality.
Kiln-dried
Lumber grades
Lignin
Heartwood
25. The wood in the inner part of a tree - usually darker and containing inactive cells.
Sawyer
Annular rings
Annular rings
Heartwood
26. The rings seen when viewing a cross-section of a tree trunk; each ring constitutes one year of tree growth.
Heartwood
First and seconds
No. 1 common
Annular rings
27. A type of warp in which the side of a board is curved from edge to edge.
Plain-sawed
Lumber
Fiber-saturation point
Cup
28. A defect in lumber caused by a separation of the annular ring; also - a type of wood shingle.
Softwood
Board
Shake
Kiln-dried
29. A layer just inside the bark of a tree where new cells are formed.
Pitch pocket
Plain-sawed
Cambium layer
Cup
30. A defect in lumber caused by cutting through a branch of limb embedded in the log.
Knots
Fiber-saturation point
Wane
Lumber
31. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.
Board
Moisture meter
Cup
Sapwood
32. A method of sawing lumber parallel to the medullary rays to produce edge-grain lumber.
Quarter-sawed
Pith
Shake
Bow
33. The amount of moisture in wood expressed as a percentage of the dry weight.
Warp
Moisture content
Timber
No. 1 common
34. A lower grade of hardwood lumber.
No. 1 common
Seasoned lumber
Hardwoods
Pith
35. Wood from coniferous (cone-bearing) trees.
Board
Heartwood
Softwood
Lumber grades
36. Bark - or lack of wood - on the edge of lumber.
Moisture meter
Annular rings
Coniferous
Wane
37. A layer just inside the bark of a tree where new cells are formed.
Cambium layer
Warp
Fiber-saturation point
Timber
38. The outer part of a tree just beneath the bark containing active cells.
Cup
Sapwood
Board
Pith
39. The small - soft core at the center of a tree.
Pith
Kiln-dried
Plain-sawed
First and seconds
40. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.
Seasoned lumber
Board
Sawyer
Juvenile wood
41. A type of warp in which the side of a board is curved from edge to edge.
Cup
Knots
Wane
Lumber grades
42. The moisture content of wood when the cell cavities are empty but the cell walls are still saturated.
Fiber-saturation point
Quarter-sawed
Knots
Moisture meter
43. Large pieces of lumber over 5' in thickness and width.
Timber
Quarter-sawed
Green lumber
Warp
44. An opening in lumber between annular rings containing pitch in either liquid or solid form.
Lumber grades
Board foot
Pitch pocket
Fiber-saturation point
45. A volume of wood that measures 1' square and 1' thick or any equivalent lumber volume.
Quarter-sawed
Lumber grades
Pitch pocket
Board foot
46. Trees that shed leaves each year.
Deciduous
Cambium layer
Cup
Knots
47. Lumber that has been dried to a suitable moisture content.
Board
Seasoned lumber
Medullary ray
Equilibrium moisture content
48. A method of sawing lumber that produces flat grain.
Plain-sawed
Cambium layer
Seasoned lumber
Dimension lumber
49. The best grade of hardwood lumber.
Lumber
Deciduous
Twist
First and seconds
50. The natural glue in wood that holds together the wood cells and fibers.
Lignin
Medullary ray
Deciduous
Sawyer