Plants can provide food, shelter, clothing, or medicine. What is one kind of plant that is important to you or the people in your country? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.
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Plants provide us with food, shelter, clothing, medicines, and even the air we breathe! In this essay I will elaborate some of the ways that people rely on plants.
Plants provide healthy ecosystems that perform functions, like purifying air and water. Green plants harness energy from sunlight through the process of photosynthesis. With every breath we take, we get the oxygen that is by-product of that reaction. Plants also play a role in the water cycle.
Furthermore, plants provide the food. Even the carnivorous animals, like lions, need plants, because the preys they consume are plant eaters. Wheat, Rice, Pulses and all crops including vegetables like cabbage, potatoes, carrots, peas etc are the byproducts of plants that are consumed by human as principal food.
Besides, plants also provide protection and shelter. The wood from trees is used in the construction of many of our homes. Cotton and other plants provide us with the materials we used to make many of the clothes we wear.
In addition, plants are used for making medicines. Particularly Indian Ayurvedic medical science makes all medicines from plants and herbs. Aloe-vera is a plant that is used in cosmetic products and medicines for skin troubles.
Over and above, Bio-diesel is a diesel-equivalent that is processed fuel derived from biological sources (such as vegetable oils). This can be used in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles.
Before we conclude, Corn supplies hidden ingredients in products ranging from soap, glue, and pencil erasers to bath powder, nail polish remover, and plastics. Ingredients in many cosmetics and body lotions, such as aloe and jojoba, are also derived from plants. In nutshell, plants can provide us food, shelter, clothes, medicines and many more.
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