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Tree Rings
Colin Bielby, SAPS and MMU. All photos copyrighted. Contact author on 0161 247 2307 or [email protected]
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Starter• Can you, in groups of 4, find the value of
Pi?• You have 4 pieces of string (20, 30, 40
and 50 cm in length), a piece of graph paper and a ruler.
Go!!!
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Dendrochronology? It’s all
greek to me!
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DendrochronologyPronounced
den – dro - kron – o - la – gee
Word roots•dendro (from dendros, greek for tree)•chrono (from chronos, greek for time or past events)•logy (from logos, greek for reason or word. “ology” indicates a study or theory)
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What are tree rings?
• Growth – varies throughout year in our climate
• Late Spring/Summer – wide light coloured ring (lots of growth)
• Late summer/autumn – narrow darker ring (little growth)
• Winter – dormant (no growth)
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From LTTR, Arizona
• So one year’s growth is a dark and light ring together = annual growth ring = X
X
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From LTTR, Arizona
• Earlywood – appears light in colour – cells are thin walled and large in diameter
• Latewood – appears dark in colour – cells have thick walls and are small in diameter
• Total ring width = a light and dark band
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Photos by Grassino-Mayer at UTK (see web address)
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X
An aerial photo of the wooded area before the felling in 2002. X marks the area where the felled trees came from at grid
reference 832396
Courtesy of Multimap
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An area of pine trees showing how close together they are as they grow
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The area after the trees were felled in autumn 2002
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Young pine trees ready to plant in the cleared area in 2004
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A pupil, Bielby junior, collecting measurements from felled pines
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Task 1. Is there a relationship between the age (number of
rings) and the diameter of the tree?
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Stop here to do task
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Tree Rings Tree Diameter(cm)
5 6
6 7
7 7
7 7
8 8
11 12
14 11
14 12
14 12
18 17
18 16
18 16
19 16
19 17
19 18
20 19
20 20
22 14
25 18
26 18
27 21
27 23
28 23
29 21
30 23
30 28
30 26
31 28
32 18
32 30
32 25
32 35
35 33
36 33
36 33
36 31
38 26
38 32
38 35
39 40
39 31
39 31
40 24
40 21
41 27
41 29
41 34
42 31
42 29
42 40
42 32
43 36
44 24
44 36
44 52
45 34
47 42
47 44
49 32
49 48
50 51
51 39
53 26
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Tree Diameter(cm) with age
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0 20 40 60
Age (tree rings) years
Tre
e d
iam
ete
r (c
m)
TreeDiameter(cm)
Linear (TreeDiameter(cm))
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Diameter of tree (cm) Number of tree rings
7 8
12 11
15.5 18
18 17
18.5 22
20 19
24 27
25 27
30 45
33 35
34 33
40 37
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Tree ring graph
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
0 20 40
Diameter of the tree (cm)
Tre
e ri
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s (a
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ears
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Task 2. Marking off actual years and events on a tree
section
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2002
The year England won the world cup?
The new millenium?
? When were you born?
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Put in some important dates
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Task 3. Is there a relationship between the shape of the tree section
and where it grew?
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Look at the shape of this cross section of a tree trunk.
What is unusual about the shape?
Think about how it has grown
Think about where it might have been in the group of trees that were cut down (go back to the photo and map on slides 9 and 10)
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Task 4. Is there a relationship between the width of the summer ring
and the weather that year?
See slide 6
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Current Useful Websites about Tree Rings and Dendrochronology
• Sites for primary pupils
• http://www.safetreekids.net/index.html
• A public education programme of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. It has a section on tree rings and an activity to draw rings on downloadable cartoon tree sections.
• Sites for secondary pupils
• Tree Rings: A Study of Climate Change
• http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/global/treestel.html
• A very comprehensive site that has a glossary, very readable text and a series of activities to help pupils understand the relationship between tree ring growth and climate.
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Sites for teachersHenri D. Grissino-Mayer's Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pageshttp://web.utk.edu/~grissino/principles.htm and ............/gallery.htm• Ideal for a teacher who wants to know a little more about the subject. There is an extensive
gallery that has some very clear images of tree rings in a variety of species that could be used to help pupils understand the principle of tree aging.
Oxford Dendrochronology LaboratoryDaniel Miles, Michael Worthington, and Dr Martin Bridgehttp://www.dendrochronology.com/• Technical site that would be useful for background information for the teacher.
The University of Arizona. The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Dendrochronologyhttp://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/dendrochronology.html• A very detailed site with clear explanations about tree rings supported with comprehensive
illustrations.
Title: Tree Rings - Dendrochronology (2 Lessons)Prepared by: Claudia Marosz, Garden Grove Unified School District, Westminster, CA, USAhttp://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/CTS/TreeRing.html• A rather complex site but there is an excellent description of tree rings by Bruce Palmer (very
readable for secondary pupils) if you scroll to the bottom of the page.
Tree Rings. A cursory look at these well known features by Paul James, UK• Published in the January 2002 edition of Micscape Magazine the on-line monthly magazine of
the Microscopy UK web. http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan02/treering.html • An excellent gallery of sections of a variety of trees.