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1 Green Glory

Without plants, nearly all life on Earth would end. Plants provide oxygen for humans
and animals to breathe and also they provide food for many animals. There are about
260000 plant species in the world today. They are found on land, in oceans and in fresh

water. They were the first living things in Earth.
Read the clues and name the plants.

Because this tree is capable of
providing food, water, shelter and
medicine, it has been given the Corks of bottles are made from This plant of South India
little title of ‘the tree of life.’ the bark of this tree. produces flowers once in 12 years.
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It is said that the juice of this
Neel, a blue dye, is made from the poisonous plant was used to kill Roots of this plant are used in the
leaves of this plant. Socrates. treatment of high blood pressure.
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This Corner

Tomato juice is the official
state beverage of Ohio,
honoring the part A.W.
Digitalis, a drug used to treat Quinine, a medicine for the Livingston of Reynoldsburg,
heart problems, is got from this treatment of malaria, is made Ohio.
plant. from the bark of this tree.
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Clue Corner

a) Kurinji b) Cinchona c) Baobab Tree d) Hemlock
e) Indigo f) Foxglove g) Rauvolfia h) Oak

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