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.