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BI100 Natural History Study Page Tree Leaf Scans | Weeds/Trees: Fall | Spring Animal Sounds and Pictures | Sounds Quiz.mp3 Herps | Mammals | Wood Uses Thumbnail Indices: Leaves | Animals | Weeds/Trees: Fall | Spring The bird artwork displayed within this site was scanned from: Birds in Missouri, by Brad Jacobs, published by the MO Dept. of Conservation The sounds available within this site were digitized from: 1. Missouri Bird Calls, Missouri Dept. of Conservation, ©1996. 2. Talking Toad and Frog Poster, Missouri Dept. of Conservation, ©1985. 3. Singing Insects of Missouri, Missouri Dept. of Conservation, © 1998.

Trees - scanned images (thumbnails) | (leaf anatomy) | Online Quiz
American Elm | American Basswood | Ash | Black Cherry | Black Locust | Black Oak | Black Willow
Boxelder | Bradford Pear | Crabapple | Dogwood | Eastern Cottonwood | Hawthorn | Hickory | Holly
Honey Locust | Magnolia | Mulberry | Northern Catalpa | Northern Red Oak | Pawpaw | Persimmon
Pin Oak | Poison Ivy | Red Maple | Redbud | Sassafras | Shingle Oak | Silver Maple | Sugar Maple
Sweetgum | Sycamore | Tulip | Walnut | White Oak

Weeds and Trees, Fall - Photos (thumbnails) | Online Quiz
Baldcypress | Bradford Pear | Bush Honeysuckle | Cattail | Chickory
Common Ragweed | Eastern Red Cedar | English Ivy | Milkweed
Plantain | Pokeweed | Shortleaf Pine (Yellow Pine) | Smartweed | White Pine | Yew

Weeds and Trees, Spring (thumbnails) | Online Quiz
Basswoods | Bedstraw | Bradford Pear | Bugleweed | Bush Honeysuckle | Buttercup
Chickweed | Common Violet | Crabapple | Crown Vetch | Dandelion | Dead Nettle
Filaree | Grass (flowers) | Hedge Bindweed | Henbit | Johnny-Jump-Up | Mustard | Pale Dock
Parsley | Peppergrass | Plantain | Poison Ivy | Red Clover | Shepherd's Purse | Speedwell
Spring Beauty | Star of Bethlehem | Thistle | Virginia Creeper | White Clover
Wild Carrot | Wild Onion | Wild Strawberry | Wood Sorrel

Birds - picture and sound | Bird Flashcards
American Robin | Barred Owl | Black-capped Chickadee | Blue Jay | Canada Goose
Common Crow | Common Grackle | Eastern Bluebird | Eastern Screech Owl
House Sparrow | House Wren | Mallard | Mourning Dove | Northern Bobwhite
Northern Cardinal | Northern Flicker | Northern Mockingbird | Pileated Woodpecker
Purple Finch | Red-Tailed Hawk | Red-winged blackbird | Rock Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Starling | Tufted Titmouse | Wild Turkey | Whip-poor-will

Toads/Frogs - picture and sound | Frogs and Toads Flashcards
American Toad | Bullfrog | Gray Tree Frog | Southern Leopard Frog

Insects - picture and sound | Insects Flashcards
Field Cricket | Morning Cicada | Northern True Katydid | Scissor Grinder Cicada

All Animal Sounds Files
All Animal Flashcards | All Sound Files - mp3.zip
Animal Sounds Online Quiz | Mammals & Herps Online Quiz

Sound Quiz .mp3 - answers
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Herps: Reptiles and Amphibians (thumbnails)
Reptiles:
  Nonvenomous snakes: Eastern Garter | Black Rat | Prairie King | Northern Water | Midland Brown
  Venomous snakes: Copperhead | Cottonmouth | Timber Rattlesnake
  Lizards: Fence Lizard | Collared Lizard | Broadhead Skink
  Turtles: 3-toed Box Turtle | Common Snapping Turtle | Red-eared Slider
Amphibians:
  Salamanders: Spotted Salamander | Cave Salamander

Mammals (thumnails)
Opossum | Least shrew | Eastern mole | Little brown bat
Nine-banded Armadillo | Eastern cottontail rabbit | Eastern chipmunk
Woodchuck | Eastern Gray Squirrel | Beaver | Deer mouse
Eastern wood rat | Woodland vole | Muskrat | Coyote | Red wolf
Red fox | Black bear | Raccoon | Mink | Badger | River otter
Striped skunk | Bobcat | Mountain Lion | White-tailed deer | Bison

Wood Uses   printable version

1. white oak - useful for all wood purposes - manufacture of barrels, furniture, ties, posts, etc...
   
2. northern red oak - flooring, furniture, millwork, railroad ties, mine timbers, fenceposts, pilings, pulpwood...
   
3. walnut - high quality furniture, gunstocks, fine veneers
   
4. hickory - handles of picks, hatchets, hammers, baseball bats, skis
   
5. sugar maple - furniture wood, boxes, crates, veneer, flooring, sap used to make maple syrup, ornamental tree
   
6. sweetgum - cabinetwood, plywood, barrels, furniture, wood trim, and as an ornamental tree; 2nd in timber production to oaks
   
7. black cherry - furniture, toys, handles, paneling, professional and scientific instruments, cabinet wood, ornamental tree
   
8. sycamore - butcher blocks, furniture, crates, barrels, flooring, particleboard, pulpwood, matchsticks, popsickle sticks
   
9. redbud - ornamental tree
   
10. dogwood - ornamental; used to make weaving shuttles, spool and bobbin heads, golf club and mallet heads
    
11. ash - handles for garden tools, baseball bats, furniture, hockey sticks, tennis rackets, boat oars
    
12. poison ivy - produces a chemical called urushiol, which causes a rash in humans
    
13. persimmon - golf club heads, weaving shuttles, furniture veneer, fruit is edible and used to make pudding, cake, beverage
    
14. black willow - millwork, furniture, doors, cabinetwork, pulpwood, boxes, crates, used to stabilize riverbanks
    
15. pawpaw - produces fruit similar to banana that may be marketed in the future

For more information: Natural History of Missouri Index
  Trees | Plants of SLUH | Animal Sounds | Herps | Mammals