Topic 2 - Plant Roles

A living resource is living things that can be used for humans.

• True

• False

Plants can only produce oxygen and NOT carbon dioxide

• True

• False

Plants can be used for medicine and clothes.

• True

• False

Plants make their own food

• True

• False

In the past the First Nations, Metis and Inuit people in Canada used many plants as medicine

• True

• False

Plants are producers; this means

• they can make their own food

• they eat others

• they get their food from breaking down other organisms

Examples of fibre include:

• cotton, wood, fruits

• fruit, cotton, syrup

• cotton, wood, paper

A definition of living resources are

• trees that are collected by forest managers

• any living thing that can be used for human needs

• dairy cattle that make milk for humans

When a living resource is NOT being used up faster than it can be replaced, it is called

• sustainable

• environmentally unstable

• non-sustainable

Plants are needed for all life on Earth because they

• provide food

• make carbon dioxide

• are all dangerous