Why are trees important?

Question

i want to know about the trees and how are important for people, for example, trees give us oxygen, important for wildlife, give us fruit and wood etc...

Answer 1

Trees are our breathing partners. You may not live in a forest, but you need trees in order to live. People and animals depend on trees and plants for oxygen. As you breathe in, your body uses oxygen. As you breathe out, it gives off carbon dioxide. Trees do just the opposite. They take in Carbon Dioxide and then release oxygen (which also helps clean the air).

Trees also help cool the Earth. Trees give off moisture. More moisture in the air means more rain and all living things need water. Trees cool the air by shading and through water evaporation. They act like huge pumps to cycle water up from the soil back into the air. The 200,000 leaves on a healthy 100 foot tree can take 11,000 gallons of water from the soil and breathe it into the air in a single growing season.

Trees are also very important for us as a renewable resource. Trees are a natural resource that can be renewed - by the planting of trees - replacing the trees that are harvested for use by people. We depend on forest products for things like the wood we burn for heat and the wood we use to make houses and furniture. We use trees for the paper to make books and letters we write. Actually, there are more than 5,000 things made from trees. Trees give us baseball bats, shoe polish, and even tooth paste that comes from tree extracts.

Today, the people and companies that manage our nation's forests recognize that trees are a valuable resource and that it is in the best interest of each of us to conserve them. The idea of sustainable forestry means trying to keep things in balance - when trees are cut down to make paper and other products, new trees are planted or regrow naturally. Forests helps wildlife by providing them food and a home. Trees and forests help us by cleaning our air, soil, and water - and provide a place for you to camp and hike! So you can help the world by planting a tree.

Answer 2

Trees are very important in many ways we can forget, such as...
· trees provide shelter (shade from the sun, or from heavy rains, or from strong winds, or from wind-chill, or from too many other people crowding around us, and the shelter provided can be for other animals (raccoons, bears, squirrels, sloths, monkeys, birds, lizards, spiders, ants, wasps, and many beetles, and their larvae) and for other plants (orchids, lichens, bromeliads, moss, ferns, mistletoe) and fungi;
· trees provide food (chocolate, olives, chewing gum, coconuts, tamarisk fruit, breadfruit, walnuts, apricots, peaches, apples, lemons, oranges, grapefruit, mandarins, durians, ...) (but not bananas), and everyone knows that another animal like a beaver may eat any poplar tree that comes into sight;
· trees provide water (they can raise the ambient humidity, they can draw water up from the ground, water evaporates from their foliage, they allow water to enter the soil more easily along their extensive root systems, and the water which enters the ground doesn't all go charging off to the nearest river and flow away before it can be used in the neighbourhood);
· trees provide beauty (think of such trees as elms, chestnuts, Ginkgoes, palms, peppertrees, monkey-puzzles, dragontrees, bamboo ...);
· as living creatures, trees have a calming spirit - this is a real characteristic and not a characteristic to be ignored or downgraded or made of no account.

Answer 3

Trees are plants. All plants take in carbon dioxide and lock it up as carbon compounds. This improves the air we breathe. Trees are massive plants and the wood they produce is a mass of locked up carbon compounds. They also provide food, habitats for creatures etcetera. Another important function of trees is their starring role in the underground mycorrhizal web to which 98% of all known plants are connected.

Answer 4

The breath in the stuff we breath out.
They produce food and shelter for 1000's of different life forms
The give us heat in the form of fire
They give us a birds eye view of our enviroment if you climb them!
They are a climbing frame for youngsters
They look good and never answer you back
Be a good person and hug a tree today. Without them you wouldn't be able to live

Answer 5

well the trees provide oxygen, hold the topsoil in place, wood can be used for heating and shelter....if you'd like to go back to prehistory the trees that were buried in swamps were compressed into the coal and the oil that we use for every part of modern life (gas, electricity, etc) so i suppose you could say that if there were never any trees, humans would have advanced as far.

Answer 6

Trees are an important part of most terrestrial ecosystems.
The leaves convert carbon dioxide to 'food' and they produce oxygen which is breathed in by beasts + humans.
The provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrate and vertebrate animals. Beasts can live under bark, in or under leaves, in holes or crevices, on or under branches, in and around roots...
They can form a living substrate on which plants grow.
They are the food of many animals e.g. those that eat leaves, suck sap, eat flowers, seeds etc.
Dying and dead trees provide food and shelter for many kinds of animals, plants (including fungi) and bacteria. These in turn provide food for others.
Trees die and rot down to return many nutrients to the soil.
Trees provide shade for animals/humans, particularly important in very hot climates and in places where rain is extremely heavy.
Some kinds of tree live in swampy areas and form habitats for marine/brackish wildlife e.g. as in mangrove swamps.
They provide wood for furniture, veneer...etc
The roots can help to stabilise soil and to provide shade and space for other plants to grow.
Trees are also significant features for birds to sing from (to proclaim territory) and to raise their young and for other animals to use as signal areas (e.g. by use of urine, faeces, musk etc on the roots/bark).

I'm sure there are lots more reasons, but one is that trees are really beautiful - their overall shape, the leaves, flowers...etc. Some people are far too quick to chop them down for no apparent reason.

Answer 7

they breathe in co2 and give out o2... and we breathe in o2 and give out co2 the co2 and be used for them and the o2 and be used for us trees and plant contain energy from the sun the plant steals the energy from the sun then some animal eats the plant then some animal kills the other animal and the animal still has some energy left.. we all need from from plants,seafood,cows,pigs etc.. and other needs we have from trees r the basics.. shade.. shelter... we can build stuff out of it... trees lets animals live in it...
i suggest u look up in the books or the internet about how trees help us :)

Answer 8

dear trees are primary producers of ecosystem.they are called as lungs of nature because they provide us oxygen..beside providing edible fruits their seeds provide oils of economic imp.many trees yield medicines like tamarix reticulata whose smoke is used as antiseptic.Trees in both temperate and tropical forests provide shelter and protection to wild animals.to day oil which is not edible extracted from tree seeds is used in making biodiesel.tree wood is used as fuel.many tree leaves like date palm is used in roopes and .........

Answer 9

That also gives green to eyes.

To control soil errotions.

To reduce air gas pollutions.

wood shaving are very useful as bedding materials.

Etc.,

Answer 10

trees take in carbon dioxide if that did not happen then we would not be living.