Tackles about the Economic important of Plants including as Food, Clothing, Water, Medicine, Habitat, Climate, Air and etc.

2. How or What
makes the Plants
important?

3. Try and imagine a world without plants. It’s almost
impossible to conceive. Although we sometimes take
them for granted, plants have made possible and
shaped life on Earth while making this a truly green
planet.

4. Plants
 Plants are extremely important in the lives
of people throughout the world.
 People depend upon plants to satisfy
such basic HUMAN NEEDS as FOOD,
CLOTHING, SHELTER, AND HEALTH CARE.

5.  These needs are growing rapidly because of a
growing world population, increasing incomes,
and urbanization.
 Plants also feed livestock that is then consumed
itself.

6. FOOD
 Growing plants for food is just one of the
ways in which we utilize them in the
modern world.
 Everything we eat comes directly or
indirectly from plants. Throughout human
history, approximately 7,000 different plant
species have been used as food by
people.

7. CLOTHING
 The fiber industry depends heavily on the
products of cotton.
WATER
 Plants regulate the water cycle: they help
distribute and purify the planet's water. They
also help move water from the soil to the
atmosphere through a process called
transpiration.

8. MEDICINE
 One-quarter of all prescription drugs come
directly from or derivatives of plants.
Additionally, four out of five people around
the world today rely on plants for primary
health care.

9. HABITAT
 aside from human, plants make up the
backbone of all habitats. Other species of
fish and wildlife also depend on plants for
food and shelter.

10. CLIMATE
 Plants store carbon, and have helped keep
much of the carbon dioxide produced from
the burning of fossil fuels out of the
atmosphere.
AIR
 Oxygen is brought to you by plants, as a
byproduct of photosynthesis

11. Plants provide the raw materials for many
TYPES OF PHARMACEUTICALS, as well as
TOBACCO, COFFEE, ALCOHOL, AND
OTHER DRUGS.