Oh yeah, I see what you're saying. What I was going for was that you can't ask specific questions about trees not on the list, ID or not ID.PacificGoldenPlover wrote:Wait, so there is technically not supposed to be any anatomy/ecology on the test? If so, then yeah, it was a really bad test.
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Does it actually say that in the rules? I've looked over them several times, but I have never noticed that clause.
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I feel like you can infer it from the second line of 3b and the second line of 3c. And in NYS, at least for the past 3 years, that's how the tests have always been structured.PacificGoldenPlover wrote:Does it actually say that in the rules? I've looked over them several times, but I have never noticed that clause.
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In the national tree list, the first I think 30+ trees are pines and they all look pretty similar...Anyone have any tips on finding the differences?
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a) Number of needles in a bundlepihi wrote:In the national tree list, the first I think 30+ trees are pines and they all look pretty similar...Anyone have any tips on finding the differences?
b) Length of needles
c) Last, and probably most significantly, the structure of their cones/scale margins
If you do not have cones, it's quite difficult to differentiate. But the first step narrows it down to about 5 or 6, the second to about 2 or 3 and the last pinpoints the tree you want.
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Also, if they give you real samples, how stiff the needles are (this might be what flying watermelon means for c?).flyingwatermelon wrote:a) Number of needles in a bundlepihi wrote:In the national tree list, the first I think 30+ trees are pines and they all look pretty similar...Anyone have any tips on finding the differences?
b) Length of needles
c) Last, and probably most significantly, the structure of their cones/scale margins
If you do not have cones, it's quite difficult to differentiate. But the first step narrows it down to about 5 or 6, the second to about 2 or 3 and last the last pinpoints the tree you want.
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No I meant the cones. Sometimes the event supervisors are too lazy to get actual samples for the competitors and rely on slides/images (which unfortunately is completely legal according to the rules)...so one cannot really count on that.
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Oh, ok, and most of the time you're right, they are too lazy to get real samples!flyingwatermelon wrote:No I meant the cones. Sometimes the event supervisors are too lazy to get actual samples for the competitors and rely on slides/images (which unfortunately is completely legal according to the rules)...so one cannot really count on that.
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I know this may sound kind of stupid but, this is my first year doing Science Olympiad and I have no idea how to start memorizing the trees. I tried flashcards but ended up just memorizing the overall look of the card, not the actual leaf. I'm kind of stumped.
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