Plants for food and fiber

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List 5 reason why plants are important for us.

  1. food

  2. fiber

  3. medicine

  4. fuel

  5. transport & construction

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List 6 reason why plants are important to our environment

  1. produce oxygen

  1. Reduce carbon dioxide

  2. food for animals

  3. shelter for animals

  4. clean filter and absorb water regulate flow and storage of water

  5. Prevent soil erosion though their roots.

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How long does it take for a large tree to absorb the CO2 of a car?

15 minutes.

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Name 7 major crops that compose 75% of the world.

  1. wheat

  2. rice

  3. Maiz (corn)

  4. potatoes

  5. Barley

  6. cassava

  7. soyhums

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what is cotton used for?

  1. used for clothes and spacesuits

  2. fiber is strong, flexible, interlocking and under is fuzzy fiber

  3. Absorbs moisture and allows for easy evaporation

  4. Make cotton batting, rayon, plastic, and paper

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What is hemp used for?

  1. oldest used fiber

  2. it does not get eaten by many pest

  3. The crops can be planted and harvested in a single year

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What is flax used for?

  1. popular in clothes in the 19 centuries

  2. Its three times stronger than cotton

  3. Taken from a stream and they are naturally smooth and straight

  4. grown in the cooler and northern regions

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Explain how is coal made?

When ancient plants die and get covered in sediment over the years and gets compressed, under extreme presser, heat, chemical and physical in changed it turns in to coal.

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How many plants can make medicine?

7000

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What are three common plant pain relievers

  1. aspirin

  2. morphine

  3. codeine

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What is liquid rubber called?

Latex.

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What does natural rubber come from?

Brazilian rubber trees.

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What is the type of fuel that is made from sugar?

ethanol

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What is the type of fuel that is mood from wood

Methanol

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Plants fuels are considered an —————

liquid fuels

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what are the traditional fuels

oil and gasoline.

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Where does sugar come from/what countries grow them

sugar comes from Sugarbeet’s

The countries that grow them are Russia, France, Germany, Poland, U.S.A, and Canada.

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What part is the sugar from?

The roots.

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What does the sugar look like when you take it out of the plant’s roots.

it’s a clear liquid is concentrated and crystallized.