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What Plants Do for Us
What Plants Do for Us
Plants do a lot for us. We couldn’t live without them.
Plants give us vegetables, fruits, cereals, and most other foods we eat.
Plants give us wood for building houses and making furniture.
Plants give us cotton, linen, and other kinds of cloth for clothes, towels, sheets, and other things we use.
Plants give us paper, rubber, string, and medicines. They even give us the fresh air we breathe!
And—just as important—plants give us pleasure. For, what sort of a world would it be if there were no shady trees, green grass, or lovely flowers?
Fresh air to breathe
Did you know that every green plant in the world is like a kind of factory? It works from sunrise to sunset making food for itself. As it produces food, it gives off an invisible gas called oxygen….
Seeds, stems, and salad stuff
All the foods we call vegetables come from some part of a plant. Lima beans, peas, and kidney beans are plant seeds. Radishes, carrots, and beets are plant roots. Onions are plant bulbs. Potatoes…
Sweet and tasty seed packages
Anything that grows on a plant and has seeds inside it is a fruit. A fruit is really just a package with one or more plant seeds in it. Many kinds of fruits are good to eat. Apples, oranges, pears,…
Bread, breakfast food, and popcorn
Do you know that you probably eat grass? When we think of grass we usually think of green lawns. But there are many kinds of grass. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice, and corn (which is called maize in…
