Importance of plants

Plants produces food

Plants are the only organisms that can convert light energy from the sun into food. And plants produce ALL of the food that animals, including people, eat. Even meat. The animals that give us meat, such as chickens and cows, eat grass, oats, corn, or some other plants.

Plants produces oxygen

One of the materials that plants produce as they make food is oxygen gas. This oxygen gas, which is an important part of the air, is the gas that plants and animals must have in order to stay alive. All of the oxygen available for living organisms comes from plants.

Plants preserves soil
In the forest and the prairie, the roots of plants help hold the soil together. This reduces erosion and helps conserve the soil. When plants die, their decomposed remains are added to the soil. This helps to make the soil rich with nutrients.

Plants produces resources for Man
Many plants are important sources of products that people use, including food, fibers and medicines. Plants also help provide some of our energy needs. In some parts of the world, wood is the primary fuel used by people to cook their meals and heat their homes. Many of the other types of fuel we use today, such as coal, natural gas, and gasoline, were made from plants that lived millions of years ago.