What are the multiple uses of plants?
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Answer:
Used for Food, Oxygen,Fruits
Explanation:
1. 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.
2. Medicines: Many medicines are made from plants and these plants are called medicinal plants. Neem, tulsi, brahmi, surpagamdha, banafsa, bail, etc. are known as medicinal plants.
3. Paper: Bamboo, eucalyptus, etc. are used to make paper for writing and printing purposes. Rags of cotton are also used to make paper
4. Rubber: Some plants give us gum like acacia, etc. We get rubber from rubber-plants. This rubber is used for making tyres for many vehicles. We erase pencil marks with the help of a rubber or eraser.
5. Wood: We get timber and fire- wood from trees. Our chairs, tables, doors, windows, etc. are made of wood. The wood of trees like teak, shisham, sal, etc. is essentially used to make different furniture.
6. Cotton: We get cotton from cotton plants. It is used to make all types of cotton clothes such as bed-sheets, towels, etc.
7. Fibers: There are some fibrinous plants to give us fiber for making ropes, gunny-bags, etc. Hemp, jute, etc. are such plants.
8. Perfumes: Flowers of certain plants are used to make perfumes. The flowers of rose, jasmine etc. are good for making perfume. Flowers are also used for different purposes like to make garlands and for other decorative purposes.
9. Pollution-remover: Plants and trees save us from air-pollution. Green plants take the carbon dioxide from the air in the process of photosynthesis and give back oxygen to the air. We breathe in oxygen from the air and given out carbon dioxide. Thus, we give carbon dioxide to the plants and they return us oxygen. Hence air is saved from being polluted by carbon dioxide.
10. Manure: Plant wastes are used to make manure. This manure is utilized for the growth of other plants and crops.