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Mrs. L. Ryan, Teacher-LibrarianAdapted from a slide show by Moira White, PhD
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What do plants need to survive?
• sunlight
• carbon dioxide
• water
• the right temperature
• to reproduce
• protection
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As a quick review from previous lessons, you should remember:
What part of the plant absorbs carbon dioxide?
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What part of the plant absorbs water?
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What part of the plant is involved in reproduction?
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Carbon dioxide is generally available to most plants from the
air surrounding them.
Plants that live in dense forests do have to compete for light.
Noting that most plants grow towards the light, consider the
these cases:
Sunshine is also generally available but in some cases plants have to
actively seek it.
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Many trees in the forests grow very
tall to get to the sunlight.
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Some rainforest plants climb on others to reach
the sunlight.
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Plants that live on the forest floor are adapted to live in the shade and
require less sunlight.
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To protect themselves, plants cannot run away from animals that want to eat them, such as deer, goats, bears, insects, and rabbits. But many plants do have ways to protect themselves.
Some plants have thorns on their leaves
or stems.
Some plants taste bitter.
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Some plants are poisonous and cause a rash on an animal’s skin. You may be familiar with the rash caused by poison ivy.
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Many of a plant’s adaptations have to do with getting and retaining water.
A plant gets water through its roots and loses water through its leaves .
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Most plant adaptations seem to have come about because of the
plant’s water supply. We will study plant adaptations in: 1) Deserts2) Grasslands: savannas, prairie & steppe grasslands3) Forests: rain, deciduous & coniferous 4) Tundra.
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First, some plant adaptations found in Desert plants.
The desert regions shown in brown are dry and generally hot, and often have poor soil that holds little water.
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Plants in deserts either have:
1) long roots that spread out wide and absorb a lot of water when it does rain or
2) roots that grow deep into the ground.
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Waxy coating on the leaves or stems reduce loss of water.
Desert plants often store water in their stems or leaves. Cactuses have stems but no leaves.
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Hair or spines help shade
the plant so it does not lose
so much water.
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Next, some plant adaptations found in
Grassland plants.The grassland regions can be divided into Savannas (tropical grassland) shown here in yellow which generally have a warm climate and always have definite wet and dry seasons.
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...and the prairie and steppes regions of the Earth. These regions, shown here in yellow, have mainly dry weather, deep fertile soil, and are usually hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
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Roots of grassland/prairie grasses extend deep into the
ground to absorb as much moisture as they
can.
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Grassland/prairie grasses have narrow leaves which
lose less water than broad
leaves.
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The Baobab tree in African grassland has a huge trunk to store water during the dry season.
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Next, some plant adaptations found in
the forests of the world.
There are three forest regions. The Tropical Rain Forests, shown here in dark green, seldom get below 68 degrees. They also get about 100 inches of rain each year and have less than one inch of top soil.
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Tropical rainforest trees have shallow roots because the soil is so thin. Buttresses and stilt roots help prop up plants in the shallow soil.
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Many rainforest leaves have “drip tips”—a pointed shape which helps drain excess water from the leaf.
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Epiphytic orchids have aerial roots that cling to the host plant. They absorb minerals, and water from the atmosphere.
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The Deciduous Forests shown here in dark green, have four seasons with rain in the summer and rain or snow in the winter. The temperature
varies from hot in the summer to
below freezing in the winter. Rain is plentiful, about 30 to 50 inches per
year but the trees become dormant in
the winter when there is less water
available.
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to absorb as much sunlight as possible.
In both the tropical rain forest and deciduous forest the trees have
BIG LEAVES
Water loss through these big leaves is not a problem because these regions normally get adequate water.
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The thin, broad, light-weight leaves of the deciduous trees can capture a lot of sunlight to make a lot of food for the tree in warm weather.
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Most deciduous trees have deep spreading roots
—as wide as the canopy.
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When the weather gets cooler, the broad leaves cause too much water loss and can be weighed down by snow, so the tree drops its leaves. New ones will grow in the spring.
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These regions have short summers and long cold winters.
Continuing with adaptations found in the forests of the world we consider the coniferous forest shown here in dark green.
Temperature not hot in the summer but very cold in the winter. Moisture is generally good in the
spring and summer, but freezes and is not available for the plants in the winter.
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Long roots to hold up tall trees.
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Needle-like leaves with waxy covering help reduce water
loss during freezing weather.
They do not drop leaves (needles) all at once in fall. They are kept throughout the year to make food whenever sunshine
and water are available (short
summers).
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The triangular shape of many conifer trees helps shed heavy snow to save branches from breaking.
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Finally, we look at plant adaptations found in the Tundra shown below in
brown. This is a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
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These tundra plants are low-
growing to avoid the
harsh winds.
This plant grows in a
clump to help conserve heat.
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Plants have shallow roots to absorb the limited water.
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We have touched on just a tiny sample of the remarkable adaptations plants around the world have made in order to survive.
The thing to remember is that plants, as well as animals, must satisfy their needs in order to survive, they have to
to conditions in their environment.
adapt