Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and

roots of trees, and other woody plants. It is an organic material, a

natural composite of cellulose fibres which are strong in tension
embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression.
Sledges made of wood were used in the northern Europe as early as
7000BC. As wheels were invented in 3-4000 BC, this led to the
development of carts. In the nineteenth century in North America,
railroads used wood for fuel as well as for sleepers, bridges and
vehicles.
Wood is divided into two distinct kinds called hardwood and
softwood.
Physically, wood is strong and stiff but, compared to a material
like steel, it's also light and flexible.
Wood is anisotropic, which means a lump of wood has different
properties in different directions. Wood is different due to its
annual ring and grain structure.
You can usually bend and snap a small, dead, tree branch with
your bare hands, but you'll find it almost impossible to stretch or
compress the same branch if you try pulling or pushing it in the
opposite direction. The same holds when you're cutting wood. If
you've ever chopped wood with an axe, you'll know it splits
really easily if you slice with the blade along the grain, but it's
much harder to chop the opposite way.
Wood used as fuel, building materials, furniture, paper, tools, weapons
etc.,