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1. We get many useful products from diff erent types of plants.

2. Plants are classifi ed into trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and creepers on the basis of
their size and stem.
3. The diff erent parts of plants that we eat as food are called their edible parts.
4. Roots, stems, leaves, fl owers, fruits, seeds and nuts are the edible plant parts.

5. There are other edible products that we get from plants such as oil, spices, beverages,
cocoa, sugar and jaggery.
6. Many medicines are made from plants because they contain special substances in
their diff erent parts that have medicinal properties.

EXERCISES

A. Fill in the blanks.

1. We get ____________ and ____________ from sugar cane juice.

2. Cereals such as wheat, maize and bajra are ground to make ____________.

3. ____________ are added to food to make it tasty.

4. Leafy vegetables are eaten either ____________ or ____________.

5. Leaves of tusli, neem and eucalyptus have ____________ properties.

B. Write (T) for true and (F) for false statements.

1. Herbs are also called bushes.

2. Addition of spices to food turns it sweet, hot, sour or spicy.

3. Stems of all the plants store food in them.

4. We usually eat pulses with cereals.

5. Lavender and sandalwood oils are used in making soaps.

C. Answer the following in one word.

1. Grows usually from the trunk ____________

2. Small to medium-sized plants growing close to ground ____________

3. A stem vegetable that grows above the ground ____________

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