428 BIOLOGY AND HUMAN LIFE 



QUESTIONS 



L What are the most common wild plants in your region? the most 

 common cultivated plants ? the most common wild animals ? the most 

 common cultivated animals ? 



2. What are the most useful plants in your region ? Why ? 



3. What are the most useful animals in your region ? Why ? 



4. What plant materials are used in great quantities in the principal 

 industries and occupations of your community ? How are they used ? 



5. What animal materials are used in great quantities in the indus- 

 tries and occupations of your community ? How are they used ? 



6. What different kinds of plants are represented by your clothes, 

 your books, and the contents of your pockets ? What animals ? 



7. What plants are represented in your house and its furnishings ? 

 What animals? 



8. What plants are represented by the equipment and apparatus used 

 in your school ? What animals ? 



9. What plants are represented by the materials and apparatus that 

 you use in your games and athletics ? What animals ? 



10. How are plants used in your community to make a more attrac- 

 tive place in which to live ? How are animals used ? 



n. How can the abundance of a particular species of plant or animal 

 (reindeer ; oranges ; whales ; cotton ; sugar cane ; sheep ; cattle) in- 

 fluence the whole mode of Hfe of a community ? 



REFERENCE READINGS 



Sargent, F. L. Plants and their Uses, various chapters. 



Reese, Albert M. Outlines of Economic Zoology, various chapters. 



Daugherty, L. S. and M. C. Principles of Economic Zoology, various 

 chapters. 



Price List 38. Animal Industry, Farm Animals, Poultry, and Dairying 

 (from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 

 Office). 



Price List 44. Plants. Culture of Vegetables, etc. (from the Superin- 

 tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office). 



