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TOPIC: RESOURCES FROM LIVING THINGS
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RESOURCES FROM LIVING THINGS
Resources are useful things or materials we derive from living things or non-living things. These living things are plants and animals.
RESOURCES FROM PLANTS
There are crops that we grow for their leaves, fruits, stems and roots. We can identify four major types of plant resources. These are: food crops, crops for textiles, wood crops, and medicinal plants.
Food Crops
Seeds: Examples of seeds include beans, maize, millet, sorghum, rice, barley, and wheat. We eat many of them as cooked foods. They provide us with starch, fat, and protein. We use barley for brewing beer, and wheat to make flour used in baking bread and cakes. We also use sorghum, and maize to make some local drinks
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