Assuming you're not talking about GPOs but AD design in general:

Sort of.  (You may want to invest in some reading materials; if you keep the
strict definitions of those objects in mind, their place in the hierarchy
becomes real clear).

A forest by definition is a grouping of trees with discontinuous namespaces
(microsoft.com and msn.com might be part of the same forest).

A tree is a group of domains with the same namespace
(development.microsoft.com and finance.microsoft.com)

Within a domain, you can have several OUs.

The above items are logical in nature.  Sites are physical, and as such do
not really get put in the hierarchy.

A domain can be spread out among several sites, and a site can contain
objects from multiple domains/trees/forests.

Clear as mud?

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> Is this the proper hierarchy of an AD structure?
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> Forests
> Domains
> Sites
> OU
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> Am I missing anything?
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