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.
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.
a maple tree is vascular and a pine tree is nonvasclar
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
one is pine and one is teak....
The difference between coniferous and non-coniferous wood lies in cone-bearing wood coming from trees that produce needles such as pine and spruce species. Non-coniferous wood comes from trees that produce leaves such as maple, oak and apple.
Maple wood is generally harder than oak wood. This means that maple wood is more resistant to dents and scratches compared to oak wood.
Oak Walnut Cherry Ash Maple Sugar Pine Redwood Sitka Spruce Cedar White Pine
Pine Teak Oak Maple Mahogany
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.
...They're not the same. Maple trees are like regular trees and pine trees are Christmas trees. Maple trees produce syrup that you can eat. Where-as pine trees make sap but you can't eat that.
Radiata pine is not considered a strong wood compared to hardwoods like oak or maple. It is a softwood that is commonly used for construction and furniture making due to its affordability and ease of working with tools.