five uses of plants
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Answer:
•Food: Plants are the main source of our food. ...
•Medicines: Many medicines are made from plants and these plants are called medicinal plants. ...
•Paper: Bamboo, eucalyptus, etc. ...
•Rubber: Some plants give us gum like acacia, etc. ...
•Wood: We get timber and fire- wood from trees. ...
•Cotton: We get cotton from cotton plants.
Explanation:
Food: Plants are the main source of our food. We use different parts of different plants as food.
(i) We eat leaves of some plants like spinach, radish, gram, fenugreek, etc.
The leaves are used as cooked or green food. They are rich in vitamins and minerals.
Leaves of some Plants we Eat
(ii) Roots of radish, carrot, cucumber, beet etc., are eaten as salad.
Roots of some Plants we Eat
(iii) We mostly eat cereals or food grains. The cereals are seeds of some plants belonging to the grass family. We prepare many types of food from the grains of rice, wheat, gram, barley, jowar, millet, maize, etc.
Cereals of some Plants we Eat
Seeds of some plants are used as pulses like gram, yellow-gram, pea, green-gram, lentil, etc.
Pulses of some Plants we Eat
Seeds of some plants are oily; oil is taken from the seeds like sesame, mustard, sunflower, etc. This oil is used in preparing many kinds of food and also for some other purposes. Ground nut oil, coconut oil, mustard oil, etc. are also used for preparing food.
Seeds that give us Oil
(iv) Fruits of some plants are used as food. These fruits are mango, grape, apple, orange, pine-apple, etc. These fruits are eaten raw, as they are tasty. They are juicy and rich in vitamins and minerals.
Fruits of some Plants we Eat
Almond, chestnut, pistachio, raisin, etc. are used as dry fruits.
Dry Fruits of some Plants we Eat
(v) Some plants give us vegetables. Potato, tomato, turnip, ladyfinger, bean, pea, cauliflower, cabbage, pumpkin, bottle-gourd, etc. are some of the vegetables. They are cooked for eating. These vegetables are rich in vitamin, iron and other minerals.