Plants are important because they breath out oxygen, which we breath in. We are also important to them! We breath out carbon dioxide, that is like their oxygen.
2007-10-17 08:29:50 · 9 answers · asked by danica ^^ 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
you just answered your own question
2007-10-17 08:31:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Besides oxygen, plants provide food, and a home for animals, insects, and man. Plants break down in a process call decomposition or composting. This adds living matter to the soil, which allows micro organisms that are beneficial-to thrive. Leaf matter, grass clippings fruits-spoiled, peels, pulp, etc. and vegetables-spoiled peels, pulp from juicing, etc. are the best for composting.
Aged compost is probably the most valuable additive you can add to a garden, whether it is for growing flowers, trees, lawns or vegetables. Add about an inch annually to an inch and a half, work it into your existing soil to a depth of 4 inches or more, using with a fork or rake. It encourages beneficial earth worms, & wigglers-whose waste product is amazing fertilizer. Chemical fertilizers throw your plants off balance, and make them junkies for regular fixes of ammonia type food. Personally, I use compost, Earth worm droppings, and Seaweed fertilizer to keep my plants happy. Also: compost tea, and other organic plant foods.
Interesting really, by composting how plants ideally feed themselves!
Considering that all animal, bird, reptiles, mammals, insects, fish & man need plants to eat, to live, I'd say they're imortant-air's important-and so many raw materials come from plants-like flax makes linen, cleaning products, & edible grain. We use toilet paper, & facial tissues; paper, cardboard for strorage & shipping. Paper bags, lumber for building homes, framing, beams, floors, & trusses. Plant solvents go into cleaning products, hair shampoos, and nectar provides food for hummingbirds, bees & many other insects. A by-product of that is honey. We get cane sugar from a plant-sugar cane, as well as molasses. We get maple syrup from Maple trees. Besides providing shade, plants with long root systems-trees, and grains like alflafa have roots some 30 feet deep which help break up heavy compacted soil, and bring minerals up to the soil. Really, we could not exist without plants.
2007-10-17 16:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by Penhappy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plants also provide the food upon which the entire food chain is based. Without plants there would be almost no life on Earth.
Plants also effect local weather and to a degree global climate.
2007-10-17 15:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by deadstick325 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Plants are very important, and thats the reason. What is the point of the question?
2007-10-17 15:37:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you did answer your own question. In additon to that, plants are living things that are beautiful and bring joy to life.
2007-10-17 15:32:53 · answer #5 · answered by kleo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are. You answered your own question. Your supposed to ask for others to answer.
2007-10-17 15:35:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
U got the balance which helps each other.
2007-10-17 15:38:00 · answer #7 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why did you answer your own question?
2007-10-17 15:32:40 · answer #8 · answered by hg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
QUESTION ANSWERED: )
2007-10-17 15:38:09 · answer #9 · answered by BLUSKEYES 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋