Why is wood a renewable resource?

Answer 1

The "key " word here is renewable. Resources like gold, silver, oil, coal are not renewable, at least on a time scale we could recognize. When you use up a non-renewable resource, it's gone. Timber, which is a common term for trees, are renewable. Another words, if you cut one down, you can plant one in it's place. In "Forestry", we call that rotation. Most Forest lands in the South, are on what we call a 35 yr. rotation. The timber will be selectively harvested up to 35 yrs. of age, then cut and replanted.

Some timber is a renewable resource, like plantation forests, which are planted and then cut down to make paper. It is sometimes called a sustainable resource, so long as we keep planting and growing trees at the same rate as we cut them down.

Rainforest timber is NOT a renewable resource. Some rainforest trees have taken hundreds of years to grow. There is no way we can replace them.

yes, as long as the forest as a whole is harvested within it's productivity. In other words if all the trees in a given forest grow by 100 units per year, and less than 100 units of wood are harvested that year, then that forest has renewed the resources that we have extracted.

No, wood comes form trees, tree grow, so wood is a RENEWABLE resource

Yes it is provided you keep planting trees as you cut them down.

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Wood is renewable because you can plant more trees to grow more trees for wood.

Answer 2

When people tell you wood is a renewable resource, be very suspicious!

Water is a renewable resource as long as the rivers keep running, and the rain keeps falling in the rivers' catchment areas, and the farmers all have enough water for their irrigation and crops and the dams are full enough and clean enough for the cities. But if the weather patterns are changing, as they are, then water is no longer a renewable resource.

It's the same with trees. Trees are only a renewable resource if every time you cut down a tree to make wood-chips, or cereal cartons or wooden throw-away chopsticks, you plant another similar tree which grows to maturity at the same rate that you are cutting trees down. And how can you do that if you are cutting down tropical rain-forests where the trees have taken hundreds of years to reach the majestic size they are? You can't! Trees have enormous value in soaking up huge amounts of carbon dioxide which we humans are pumping into the atmosphere, and they need to be left alone, and millions more trees planted.

There may be some "plantation forests" where they plant quick-growing pine trees and the like, which they "harvest" to make newspapers, but these "good practice" ventures are vastly counterbalanced by the (often illegal) logging of forests that are daily being cleared to provide grazing land for cattle, and teak and mahogany furniture for export.

Answer 3

Wood is a renewable energy because when wood is used there is plenty more to be used for example wood comes from trees treescome from seeds so Wood can be found everywhere you still don't get me well that was just for the people who like to read quick..


Wood comes from saplings which grow into trees people cut down trees to get wood so you get every different types of wood i learnt this in high school trust me it was an A* so you should get one too for GCSE :)





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Answer 4

Timber is considered a renewable resource because it is so durable you can reuse it. For example, their are houses made of reclaimed timber.

Answer 5

non renewable resources.

I disagree. Timber/trees are renewable; they replenish themselves. However, care must be take so that not more trees are used than can be replenish.

Answer 6

We can always grow more trees quite easily (as opposed to things like coal and metal ores, which we can't replace as easily/at all).