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Plants

Plants are living organisms which includes all the trees, herbs flowers, ferns and algae to be found on the planet. There are around 350,000 species of plants on the earth.

Plants are an essential part of the eco system of planet Earth. Without plants the human race could not exist!

Taxus chinensis Chinese yew User: Bruce_Marlin Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported	Eucalyptus bridgesiana Applebox User: Matilda image in public domain
Tilia tomentosa silver lime (Linden) User: Bruce_Marlin Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported	Roystonea regia Roystonea regia Work of the United States Government Image in public domain

One of the most essential things that plants do is to absorb the energy from the Sun in a process known as photosynthesis, and to use that energy to grow. Thus sunshine is the source of all of our natural foods! We tend not to eat grass although it is the main food for many animals, but we do eat vegetables and fruit. Of course meat and fish are also an important element of our diet.

Note that we only have fish in our seas because of plankton in the water which are part of the food chain. Plankton includes microscopic plants which grow because of the energy from the Sun.
Indirectly people eat sunshine!

Juglans regia Walnut tree User: Thesupermat GNU Free Documentation License 1.2	Daimyo Oak bonsai tree Ragesoss licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Fagus sylvatica Beech trees in Zonienwoud User: Donarreiskoffer GNU Free Documentation License 1.2	Tectona grandis Tectona grandis User:J.M.Garg GNU Free Documentation License