Question: Along with fatty acids, what kind of acids are in the extractives in wood?
Answer: resin

Question: Wood extractives include resin and fatty acids, terpenes, and what other component?
Answer: waxes

Question: What do conifers use rosin to protect themselves from?
Answer: insects

Question: Along with tall oil and rosin, what commercial product do we get from wood's extractives?
Answer: turpentine

Question: What type of wood is preferred as fuel?
Answer: Hardwood

Question: What type of wood burns quickly and makes more smoke than hardwood?
Answer: softwood

Question: What type of areas use more wood for fuel?
Answer: rural

Question: What benefit besides the cozy atmosphere would a wood-burning fireplace add to a home?
Answer: warmth

Question: What wood is decay-resistant when wet?
Answer: Elm

Question: What plumbing component was once made out of elm?
Answer: water pipe

Question: Until the late 19th century, what vessels were almost always wooden?
Answer: boats

Question: What significant purpose has wood been used for as long as humans have built shelters?
Answer: construction material

Question: Other than boats, what do people often build with wood?
Answer: houses

Question: What term is used in North America for wood used in construction?
Answer: lumber

Question: Outside of North America, if someone said "lumber," to what would they be referring?
Answer: felled trees

Question: What do people outside of North America call the sawn boards used for building?
Answer: timber

Question: What was the preferred wood for construction in Medieval Europe?
Answer: oak

Question: For modern solid wood doors, what wood is often used in addition to small-knotted pine or poplar?
Answer: Douglas fir

Question: What type of construction is often used now to build homes in much of the world?
Answer: timber-framed

Question: In addition to residential applications, what type of buildings often have engineered wood components?
Answer: commercial

Question: Along with decorative components, what type of building materials can be engineered from wood?
Answer: structural

Question: What industry benefits greatly from engineered wood products?
Answer: construction

Question: What might wood be used for in a building made from brick or other materials?
Answer: supporting material

Question: What crucial part of a house is often constructed from wood?
Answer: roof

Question: Wood might be used to construct what exterior component of a building?
Answer: cladding

Question: Inside a building, what wooden things might you open to enter or leave rooms?
Answer: doors

Question: What holds together an engineered wood product?
Answer: glue

Question: Engineered wood products are often used in construction, but what other major type of applications do they have?
Answer: industrial

Question: What requirements do engineered wood products meet?
Answer: application-specific performance requirements

Question: What efficient type of unit does the process of "engineering" wood result in?
Answer: composite structural unit

Question: Wood fibers from wood strands, lumber, and what other source can be glued together to make larger units?
Answer: veneers

Question: What category do composite panels, strand board, and plywood all fit into?
Answer: wood structural panels

Question: What's another word for glued laminated timber?
Answer: glulam

Question: What does LVL stand for?
Answer: laminated veneer lumber

Question: If current building trends continue, what material will be replaced by particle and fiber board?
Answer: plywood

Question: About how many cubic meters of wood was used in 1991 to make products like glulam, LVL, and structural composite lumber?
Answer: 100 million

Question: What material results from chemically breaking down wood?
Answer: cellulose

Question: What's the abbreviation for medium-density fiberboard?
Answer: MDF

Question: How is wood broken down into chips and fibers?
Answer: mechanically

Question: What type of flooring can be made from wood derivatives?
Answer: laminate

Question: What widely-used product is almost always made of wood fibers?
Answer: paper

Question: What category of products usually made from wood includes chairs?
Answer: furniture

Question: What wooden utensil could you stir a pot of soup with?
Answer: wooden spoon

Question: Which parts of tools are sometimes made out of wood?
Answer: handles

Question: What pieces of furniture that most people use every night can be made out of wood?
Answer: beds

Question: What special wooden utensils do many people use to eat Chinese takeout?
Answer: chopsticks

Question: What could we monitor electronically that could help inform new methods of wood protection?
Answer: Moisture content

Question: Development in the wood manufacturing industry include using lignin to make what substance?
Answer: glue

Question: Instead of rubber, what important part of a car might someday be replaced by components of wood?
Answer: tire

Question: What material might be developed from wood that could make clothes that resist wear and tear?
Answer: high strength fabrics

Question: In addition to extracting components from wood, what might scientist do by adding components, for example, to make innovative products?
Answer: modify wood

Question: Along with sculptures, what type of art have people been making out of wood for centuries?
Answer: carvings

Question: What did indigenous people in North America make out of the trunks of conifers?
Answer: totem poles

Question: What type of tree was often used for totem poles?
Answer: Western Red Cedar

Question: What city in Scotland would you visit to see the Millennium clock tower?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: What museum exhibits the Millennium clock tower?
Answer: National Museum of Scotland

Question: What kind of wood are clarinet bodies made from?
Answer: african blackwood

Question: What expensive wood with a prized color is used to make the backs of violins?
Answer: ripple sycamore

Question: What category of wood is often used for musical instruments?
Answer: tonewoods

Question: What's the common name for Picea abies?
Answer: European spruce

Question: Along with resonance, what property of an instrument will be affected by the wood used to make it?
Answer: tone

Question: What type of instruments with a misleading name aren't always made completely out of wood?
Answer: woodwind instruments

Question: What are woodwind instrument's reeds often made out of?
Answer: Arundo donax

Question: Is the Arundo donax a monocot or dicot cane plant?
Answer: monocot

Question: What objects do musicians have to have in order to play woodwind instruments?
Answer: reeds

Question: What wood is usually used for cricket bats?
Answer: white willow

Question: Ash and hickory are often used for baseball bats to comply with the rules of what organization?
Answer: Major League Baseball

Question: What is commonly used for the basketball courts the NBA plays on?
Answer: parquetry

Question: What wood has recently started being used to make baseball bats in addition to hickory and ash?
Answer: maple

Question: Compared to hickory and ash, what adjective might be used for a maple baseball bat?
Answer: fragile

Question: What pieces of equipment for shooting arrows used to be wooden?
Answer: archery bows

Question: Which pieces of ice hockey equipment were once made out of wood?
Answer: sticks

Question: When the golf club called the "wood" was actually made out of it, what type of wood was used?
Answer: persimmon

Question: What is the golf club known as the "wood" usually made out of today?
Answer: synthetic materials

Question: What other modern material has joined composites, carbon fiber, titanium, and aluminum to replace wood in the manufacture of sporting equipment?
Answer: fiberglass

Question: What component of wood is degraded by bacteria that scientists are still trying to learn about?
Answer: cellulose