Saving the Plants
Saving the Plants
Conservation means “saving things that come from nature” — air, soil, water, animals, and plants.
Plants might not seem to need care, but they do. Plants can get sick, just as people can. Insects can chew their leaves or roots until they die. Fire can turn them into a pile of ashes.
Polluted air from cars and factories can choke the life out of plants. And when ground is dug up for factories, mines, and parking lots, plants lose the space they need to live.
We need to save the plants. They give us beauty and food and fresh air. We couldn’t live without them.
That’s why conservation is important to the plants—and to you, too.
Deadly enemies
> smut on corn Smut is a tiny plant called a fungus. Many of these plants sometimes grow on corn and make it rot and die. Some deadly enemies of plants lurk in the green kingdom! They are tiny…
Insect enemies
Suppose you could make yourself as tiny as an insect. Then, suppose you sat on a leaf in a garden and were very still. You would probably hear a munching, crunching noise all around you. For, all…
The enemy in the air
Imagine a world that is plain, even ugly —a world without beauty. Imagine a world in which most of the trees are dead. Many other plants are small and twisted. Leaves and flowers are spotted with…
The most dangerous enemies
mine or national park? > From open-pit mines such as the one in the top picture, we get a useful and important metal—copper. But this kind of mine destroys both land and plants. The bottom…
