Field Trip:

Biology
17th November, 2022
Mission
Collect at least 5 different species of leaves
along the beach. (can be fresh or dry)
● You may use apps to assist you

Ø NatureID
Ø Seek + iNaturalist
In school (17/11)
Choose one species of leaf in the rooftop
garden
• Identify which class does it belongs to
• It must belong to one of the plant species
that you have collected
• Take a picture of it
In school (21/11)

Submission of a dichotomous key

• Showing all leaf specimens that
you have collected
• Include the species of leaf from
the rooftop garden
 Dichotomous key for plants
What type of plant is that?

plant grows seeds plant doesn’t grows seeds

plant doesn’t grows flowers plant grows flowers no stem or have stem
(gymnosperm) (angiosperm) leaves & leaves

scale-like needle-like fan shaped monocots dicots

leaves leaves leaves
Simple Compound
leaves leaves

entire lobed dentate

Plants don’t grow seeds
No stem no leaves Have stems and
Ø E.g. mosses and leaves
liverworts Ø E.g. ferns
Plants doesn’t grow flowers

Scale-like leaves
Ø Small, flat, overlapping
structures
Ø E.g. pine
Plants doesn’t grow flowers

Needle-like leaves
Ø E.g. conifers
Plants doesn’t grow flowers

Fan shaped leaves

Ø E.g. ginkgo biloba
 Plants grow flowers

Monocots
Ø Grass or grass-like
flowering plants
Ø Seeds contain one
embryonic leaf
Ø E.g. palm tree and banana
tree
 Plants grow flowers

Dicots
Ø Seeds contain two or
more embryonic
leaves
Dicots
How to tell if the dicot contain simple or not
simple leaf?
Ø Look for the “axillary bud” between the
leaf and stem
Dicots

Compound leaf
Ø E.g. roses,
horse-chestnut,
and poison ivy
Dicots

Simple entire leaves

Ø E.g. dogwood
plant
Dicots

Simple lobed leaves

Ø have distinct rounded or
pointed projections
Ø E.g. white oak, sweetgum,
maple
Dicots

Simple dentate
leaves
Ø have tooth-like
protrusions
Ø E.g. chestnut
trees