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Tree Bark

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Bark dark gray divided by irregular furrows into ridges that may flake off in older trees. Furrows with alternating layers of brown and white.

a)

Black Walnut

b)

American Elm

c)

Sugar Maple

d)

White Ash

2.

Bark is smooth, thin and gray with resin filled blisters.

a)

Yellow Birch

b)

Black Cherry

c)

Trembling Aspen

d)

Balsam Fir

3.

Bark furrowed but easily cut. Dark gray within Fissures

a)

Basswood

b)

Red Oak

c)

Sugar Maple

d)

Red Maple

4.

Bark smooth greenish white when young, more deeply fissured as it gets older.

a)

Bigtooth Aspen

b)

Black Walnut

c)

Red Oak

d)

Red Maple

5.

Bark with drregular dark circular plates with upturned edges.

a)

Black Cherry

b)

Concolor Fir

c)

Red Pine

d)

Sugar Maple

6.

Bark thick deeply furrowed with rounded ridges.

a)

Bigtooth Aspen

b)

Sugar Maple

c)

Black Walnut

d)

White Ash

7.

Bark ashy gray and divided by deep irregular furrows.

a)

Bigtooth Aspen

b)

Concolor Fir

c)

Black Walnut

d)

Red Pine

8.

Bark dark scaly and fissured.

a)

Sugar Maple

b)

Hemlock

c)

Red Maple

d)

American Elm

9.

Bark reddish brown and scaly. Reddish brown more pronounced between scales.

a)

concolor Fir

b)

Scotch Pine

c)

Red Pine

d)

Larch

10.

Young bark smooth and light gray becoming cracked, horizontally and radially, then shaggy or scaly.

a)

Red Maple

b)

Sugar Maple

c)

Balsam Fir

d)

Basswood

11.

Young bark smooth and gray then breaking into firm flat topped ridges with shallow fissures. Inner bark reddish.

a)

Red Oak

b)

Red Maple

c)

Basswood

d)

American Beech

12.

Thick bark divided by shallow fissures into broad flat ridges covered by thin reddish brown scales.

a)

Scotch Pine

b)

Larch

c)

Red Pine

d)

Concolor Fir

13.

Young bark orange becoming dark and fissured when old.

a)

Red Pine

b)

Balsam Fir

c)

Spruce

d)

Scotch Pine

14.

Bark is light gray-brown, thin and scaly.

a)

Spruce

b)

Balsam Fir

c)

Scotch Pine

d)

Black Cherry

15.

Dark gray bark, smooth and firm becoming furrowed into irregular plates lifting on one side.

a)

Red Maple

b)

Sugar Maple

c)

American Elm

d)

Red Oak

16.

Bark yellowish green to white, roughened with broad ridges on old truncks.

a)

Balsam Fir

b)

Yellow Birch

c)

Basswood

d)

Trembling Aspen

17.

Bark deeply furrowed with narrow flat topped ridges that run together making diamond shapes.

a)

Black Walnut

b)

White Ash

c)

American Elm

d)

Black Walnut

18.

Yellowish gray bark peeling in thin papery layers.

a)

Yellow Birch

b)

Balsam Fir

c)

Red Maple

d)

Basswood

19.

Bark smooth steel gray.

a)

Red Maple

b)

Basswood

c)

American Beech

d)

Red Oak