Forestry Unit Outline

Natural Resources: Biology Spring 2020

Sanders

Forestry Unit Outline

The suggested schedule for this unit: Week of April 13- Check that your chapter 20 homework gets done and turned in, go outside to view trees and do some labs pertaining to forestry Week of April 20- Check that your chapter 21 homework gets done and turned in, continue with forestry and the importance of trees in our society

Mandatory Items: Week 1

Suggested date for completion and turn in is Monday, April 20th

Tree Identification PPT notes Paper based and google.classroom

To be turned in to Sanders

Chapter 20 Homework

Page 525, #1-18

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Choose your own adventure-Pick 2 of the following items

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Succession-Changing forest habitats handout

Paper based: Explain where you have seen succession occurring

BioMan-Succession Interactive bs/EcoGames/succession_interactive.html

Take a walk through a forest

Journal what you see and hear. Don't forget pictures!

Ecological Succession

Watch the video and draw a cartoon summarizing ecological succession. Make sure to include primary and secondary succession. RSJDs

Watch a National Forest Virtual Tour

Record what you see and learn/forest is of your choosing but check out the National Forest Service websites

Extra Practice-not required or graded

Crash Course Videos

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Amoeba Sisters video

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Mandatory Items: Week 2

Suggested date for completion and turn in is Monday, April 27th

To be turned in to Sanders

Chapter 21 Homework

Page 549, #1-17

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Lumber Calculations notes

Paper based and google.classroom

Choose your own adventure-Pick 2 of the following items

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Tree Height Measurement activity

Paper based-try to measure the height of at least 3 trees

Estimating firewood from standing trees activity

Paper based-try to measure the cord of firewood from at least 3 trees

Watch a National Forest Virtual Tour

Record what you see and learn/forest is of your choosing but check out the National Forest Service websites

Firewise Alaska booklet

PDF on google.classroom (I can also email the pdf). Read through the booklet and talk with your family about how firewise your home and neighborhood is.

Extra Practice-not required or graded

CASE 7.2.1 Value of a Tree

Link on Google.classroom

CASE 7.2.2 Calculating Board Feet

Link on Google.classroom

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Tree Identification Powerpoint

Forested

? The definition of forested (land that is forested or has trees growing on it): to be classified as forested (forestland) the area must be at least one acre and contain at least 10% tree cover. Project Learning Tree

Dendrology

? `Dendro-' from the Greek word meaning tree

? `-ology' meaning the study of

? Dendrology is the study of trees and includes taxonomy, identification, silivical characteristics, ranges, morphology, and ecology

Vocabulary

? Taxonomy is the study of the classification of living things.

? Morphology is the study of the shape, general appearance, or form of an organism.

? Silviculture is the care and cultivation of forest trees.

? Ecology is the study of the relationships between living and non-living things and their environment.

What makes a tree a tree?

? Heights at least 4.5 meters (about 15 feet)

? Single dominant woody stem (trunk or bole)

? Capable of diameter growth

? Perennial plant (present at all seasons of the year)

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What makes a shrub a shrub?

? Heights under 4.5 meters (less than 15 feet)

? Multi-stemmed ? Capable of diameter

growth ? Perennial plant

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Tree Identification

By observing leaves

Conifers vs. Deciduous

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Which is Which?

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Characteristics of Conifers

? Needle shaped leaves ? Seeds that develop

inside cones ? Evergreen ? green

year round ? Gymnosperm, conifer,

softwood ? Examples: pine,

spruce, hemlock, fir

Examples of conifers

Balsam fir

Red pine

Douglas fir

Fraser fir

White pine

Scotch pine

Conifer leaves

? Needle like

? Scale like

Conifer needles

? Clusters

? Singles

Deciduous Tree Characteristics

? Broad flat leaves ? Lose all leaves each

year in the fall ? Angiosperm

(flowering plants), broadleaf, hardwood ? Examples: oak, maple, beech, aspen, ash

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Deciduous examples

Red oak

Elm Honey locust Red maple

Black locust

White birch

beech

Crimson king

Exceptions

? Larch trees have cones and needles, but lose their leaves each year.

? Yew trees have needle shaped leaves and are evergreen but have berries not cones.

? Holly trees have broad flat leaves and it is evergreen.

Leaf characteristics-deciduous

? Leaf arrangement: whorl, alternate, opposite

? Leaf type: simple or compound

? Leaf edge: entire (smooth), lobed (projection), toothed (serrated)

? Leaf texture: hairy, waxy, rough, smooth, thick, thin, etc.

? Leaf shape: various

Leaf Arrangement

alternate

opposite

whorl

Leaf Type Simple vs. Compound

Simple

Compound

? Only one leaf blade

? Joined by its stalk to the woody stem

? Examples: maple, oak, aspen, beech

? Made up of several leaflets

? Leaflets are joined to a midrib that is not woody

? Examples: ash, walnut, sumac

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Simple or Compound?

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What is the leaf type?

Leaf Edge Lobed , smooth, toothed?

Leaf Texture

Leaf Shape

More characteristics to ID trees

? Bark ? Twigs ? Flowers ? Fruits/Seeds ? Cones ? Overall shape

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Bark

? Color ? Texture ? Furrows ? Age ? Thorns

Twig clues

? Leaf scars aka buds are the places where the leaves used to be attached

? Size color and shape of buds also useful to ID trees

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? Shape ? Color ? Texture ? Size

Flower clues

Fruits & Seeds

Cones

Overall shape

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