Maple is the hardest of those woods. Oak is a hardwood also but not a dense as Maple. Pine is a softwood and thusly not near as strong or dense a Maple
pine
No pine is more dense then cedar.
Maple is a hard wood (from a leafed tree) and pine is a soft wood (from a conifer). In this case both wood also have the described character (hard vs soft) not always the case.
pine wood burns very rapidly because it is not dense and is full of very flammable rosin.
There are various types of maple and pine each with its own characteristics but the main difference in characteristics is that maple is hard and fine grained whereas pine is relatively soft and coarse grained. There is a list of various types of wood and their characteristics at `Properties and Uses of Woods' - http://www.inquirewithin.biz/Vol1/Woods/wood_properties.htm.
Oak Walnut Cherry Ash Maple Sugar Pine Redwood Sitka Spruce Cedar White Pine
Pine Teak Oak Maple Mahogany
parana pine wood is one of the most tensile materials on the planet
Pine floats like most other wood
There are many types. The main ones are Maple, Oak, Pine, and Locust.
Wood is named by the type of tree that it comes from. Maple, oak, pine, poplar, chesnut, walnut, cherry, etc.
The front of the lane is maple and the middle to end of the lane is pine, that's why you see two different colors. Today most lanes are not made of wood, they are made of a synthetic material.