TREE IDENTIFICATION

TREE IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP
Coursework


Tasks:

1. Go to the tree identification site What Tree Is it?, click on Background information and look at the information describing types of leaves and fruit. Create a simple table of all the leaf and fruit types (do not include examples of species):

http://www.oplin.org/tree/index.html

2. Now click on Identify by Leaf and Identify by Fruit and carefully follow the instructions to identify the trees in your workbook.

3. Once you have identified the tree, write down the data in note-form in your workbook (10 species per student).

4. For those trees that are not on this site look in the Tree Identification site:

http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/Forsite/Idtree.htm

5. You can also consult some of these resources:

Ohio Dept of Natural Resources; glossary of terms
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/Education/ohiotrees/treesindex.htm

Another tree identification web site, icluding a glossary of terms
http://forestry.msu.edu/uptreeid/default.htm

Animated ID keys:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pages/tree/key.html
http://treelink.org/whattree/index.htm
http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeID.cfm
http://www.arborday.org/trees/wtit/

6. Finally, you can check your answers on the following web pages, both hardwoods and conifers:

http://treelink.org/whattree/index.htm (drawings)
http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeID.cfm (drawings)
http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/100_trees_id.htm

7. Prepare a glossary of specialist terms (term in English, definition in English, Spanish equivalent). You can use the resources in point 5.

WORLD'S BIOMES

WORLD´S BIOMES


Worksheet for Inglés II students of the ETSI de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid



Consult the web page The world’s biomes to help you with these tasks and questions:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

1. What are biomes? State briefly what their significance is.

2. Create a pie-chart which shows in different colours the proportion of the five biomes in percentage.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/


CLASSIFICATION OF BIOME TYPES

3. Use and consult the following web pages in order to create a table of all biome types, and their subdivisions, indicating in each biome type the position in the world, the altitude, climate, vegetation, fauna and use. Pay special attention to forest types. Translate all divisions and subdivisions into Spanish.

Shades of green: Earth´s forests

http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/main1.html

The world´s biomes

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

All about Nature

http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/tempdecid/tempdecid.shtml
NOT ONLY FOR KIDS! VERY HELPFUL!


4. Put together a bilingual (English-Spanish) glossary of terms you did not know (names of plant and animal species are optional)


NOTE: In all the tasks make use of the glossaries and taxon help to work with unknown vocabulary. The site All about Nature includes pictures of species in each biome and their names in Latin.

ICT WORKSHOP - FORESTRY RESOURCES

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET: ACCESSING REFERENCE AND DOCUMENT RESOURCES

Objective: familiarize students with the process of network resource discovery

Tasks: discovery and retrieval questions aimed at guiding browsing and searching
techniques (to retrieve relevant documents):

Browsing (by type, by location, by subject)
Searching
Opening a location (go to given URL=Universal Resource Locator)

Use the web addresses below to find answers to the following questions. Indicate in each answer the web site where you found the answer:

Note: some resources may be understandable from the URL without the need to opening them first. Other references may have no evident relation to the questions.



QUESTIONS:

1. What is another word for matorral and what are the different types?
2. How could you find out about the Progress in Timber Certificatin Schemes World-Wide?
3. Which is the total area of forests and woodland in Britain?
4. When and where is the nearest conference on grasslands?
5. Name the important products of the Spanish forestry sector.
6. What is Spain´s total forest cover? State the reference year
7. List the three possible Spanish equivalents of scrub
8. Which site lists the most forestry or forestry related glossaries?
9. Find companies that harvest and manufacture products from the forest in the U.S.
10. How would you define heathland?
11. Send a question to a forestry specialist, and write down the response you got from him.



SELECTED WEB SITES:

FAO DICTIONARY , MULTILINGUAL, ON-LINE

http://faoterm.fao.org/.

FAO FORESTRY

http://www.fao.org/forestry/index.jsp

FAO FORESTRY DATABASE

www.fao.org/forestry/site/6768/en

FORESTRY ABOUT

http://forestry.about.com/

EUNIS HABITATS

http://eunis.eea.eu.int/habitats.jsp

EC HABITAT DIRECTIVE/HABITAT TYPES

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/nature/.

EU NATURE CONSERVATION. RED NATURA 2000

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/nature/nature_conservation/index_en.htm

FORESTS FOREVER

http://www.forestsforever.org.uk/contents.html

EUROPEAN GRASSLAND ORG

http://www.europeangrassland.org/

ECOSYSTEM TERMS CR

http://mab.kav.cas.cz/en/table.html

USDA FORESTRY SERVICE

http://www.fs.fed.us/

TREE LIST

http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/

TREE SPECIES, US

http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/forest/index.html

DENDROLOGY

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/factsheets.cfm

VIRGINIA TECH – DENDROLOGY SYLLABUS (LAB MATERIALS)

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/syllabus.htm

ASK DR.DENDRO great, writing, interactive, e-mail project, internet class

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/doctor/doctor.htm

TREE FACT SHEETS

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/biglist_frame.htm

ID KEY by leaf, by twig (ING I esp.)

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/idit.htm

MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL (Woody Plants)

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/wpina/index.html

PLANT DATABASE

http://plantsdatabase.com/

SUSAN´S GARDEN

http://www.susansgardenpatch.com/

WOOD IDENTIFICATION

INGLES II - ETSI de MONTES



WOOD STRUCTURE AND WOOD IDENTIFICATION-REVISION

Task: Select the following resources for online revision of the above topic according to your needs and interests. Make notes for your revision. Which of the resources did you find most useful? List them in an order of preferences:

Revision of basic concepts and terminology: (mainly slides 1-12) North Carolina State University: Anatomy of Wood, by Dr. Elizabeth Wheeler

http://courses.ncsu.edu:8020/wps595w/common/CE528.2.htm

Select topics of interest for your revision or glossary:

http://courses.ncsu.edu:8020/wps595w/common/syllabus.html

Inside a tree trunk: Nice and instructive. University of the Western Cape

http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/ecotree/trunk/woodanatomy.htm

Wood parts and anatomy - simple&pictures

http://woodmagic.forprod.vt.edu/Kids/anatomy/Anat12.htm

Wood Identification Study Guide for Forest Technology Students:
University of Maine, US

http://www.cefts.org/Wood-ID.htm