Soil filtering plants
Plant that produce small, yellow flowers. Produces pods from crushed seeds, to create oil and meal. They are used for extracting heavy metals from polluted soils with drainage water.
a) Canola b)Willow c)Alpine d)Rubber
Canola plant
Very resistant plant, with white elongated flowers, shaped like a ship's sail, it has high reproductive capacity and can filter benzene, formaldehyde and trichlorethylene. a)Spatifilo b)Sunflower c)Janet d)Dracaena
Spatifilo
True or false. The Chrysanthemum has intense green leafs and many color flowers grow from it.
True.
The Bamboo Palms are native from Mexico, China, India or Australia?
Mexico. Bamboo Palms are native to forests of central and northeastern Mexico.
Can the Pothos plant remove benzene from the air?
Yes
Tree that have abundant watery bark sap, soft, tough wood, slender branches and the leaves are typically elongated. The roots have the capability of accumulating heavy metals in sites polluted with diesel fuel. a)Pteris b)Willow c)Poplar
Willow
Indoor and outdoor tree with a firm stem, large, thick and leathery leaves that stands out for its foliage. Requires a lot of light, is an excellent formaldehyde filter, can be toxic if ingested, inside it contains a latex that produces irritation in skin and eyes. a) Alpine b) Areca c) Parlour d) Rubber
Rubber tree
True or False, do all of this types of soils filter water? Sandy soils, Silty soils, Loamy soils, Peat soil
False. The Peat soil provides an optimum soil base for planting. Though, the sandy, loamy an peat soils are great for filtering water.
The rubber plant, purifies the air through the roots and leaves, this plant is native from: South Asia, North America, South Africa or North Africa.
South Asia.
It´s a metal that can be extracted from the soil by using plants like bladder campion and it´s used commonly for small batteries.
It has large, balloon-shaped swellings behind its white, five-petalled flowers and it grows in meadows, grasslands and fields. It can be used for capturing zinc and cadmium
Bladder campion
Hanging or climbing plant of tropical origin, with very showy evergreen leaves, its temperature should not drop below 10 ºC, capable of filtering formaldehyde, benzene and carbon monoxide.
Pothos
Clorophytum Comosum must get a huge amount of sunlight, it belongs to the lilacea family and in Spanish they are also called: a) clorofito b) mala madre c) lazo de amor d) All of the above.
Todas las anteriores. For the record, "mala madre" refers to the aspect that it "alienates its children", but also "lazo de amor" because they keep some sort of conncection with it.
In Brazil, _____ plants are commonly extract gold from the soil. a) Canola B) Areca C) Snake D) Parlour
Canola plants
Does the Dracaena Fragans species filter ammonia from the air?
No
A small, flowering plant that is a member of the Brassica family, found in northerly regions. It is able to remove 10 times more cadmium than any other known soil cleaning plant.
Alpine Pennycress
Plant with raised and hard leaves that can reach 50 cm in height, it is very long-lived and resistant to insects and extreme conditions, it develops very slowly and can eliminate benzene, xylene and toluene
Tiger tongue / Sansevieria
It´s a plant with the name of a limbless reptile that can filter fumes from the air.
Snake plant
In which countries can you find Spatifilo plants?
Colombia and Venezuela
Bladder campion is mostly extracted from this two European countries, which are:
France and Spain
Fast growing tree that can reach large sizes, the leaves are spirally arranged. They can degrade petroleum hydrocarbons like benzene or paint thinners that have accidentally spilled onto the soil.The roots can easily absorb carbon tetrachloride.
Poplar tree
This plant belongs to the dracaena genus. It has abundant glossy green leaves that may remind you of the top of a pineapple. It reaches heights of 15 feet and needs indirect sunlight.
Janet Craig / Dracaena fragans
It´s the complete name for the plants commonly known as chrysanths that are recognized for cleansing the air from chemicals like formaldehyde, xylene, ammonia, benzene, toluene, and trichloroethylene.
Chrysanthemum
Where in the world does the Janet Craig/Dracaena Fragans plant grow?
Tropical Africa
This extract is one of the most important oilseed crops and produces a high-quality edible oil. Its development of HO genotypes represents a very important breeding achievement.
Sunflower extract