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DONE BY : SHI DA ,SAMUEL,HUI LI, JYNNICE. Why are plants important to us?. Oxygen and carbon dioxide.
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DONE BY : SHI DA ,SAMUEL,HUI LI, JYNNICE Why are plants important to us?
Oxygen and carbon dioxide • All plants gives oxygen and takes in carbon dioxide in the day. At the same time, thay also release water vapour. During the night or during very dry weather, stomata close in tiny slits, and the plant’s breathing slows down.
FOOD • Forest and swamps vegetation provide man with food. The nipa plam gives brown sugar. The sago palm produces sago flour. During the Second World War sago flour was the staple food of the people in Brunei Darussalam.
MEDICAL USES • Some plants have medical uses. Village herbalists concoct cures from different parts of wild plants. The cinchoina tree, found in the forests of Indonesia gives us a quinine from it bark it is a prowerful durg for the treatment of malaria.