Structural Adaptations of a Plant

Germinates and allows plants to produce

• Seeds

• Fruit

• Flowers

• Roots

Formed around the seed to protect it, consumed by animals and humans

• Seeds

• Flowers

• Fruit

• Leaves

Have different sizes, shapes, smells, or colors. Attract organisms for pollination

• Stems

• Roots

• Flowers

• Fruit

Produces food for plants in the presence of light using photosynthesis.

• Stem

• Flower

• Leaves

• Seed

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Moves and stores water and nutrients, provides support for the plant

• Fruit

• Stems

• Flower

• Leaves

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Absorbs water and nutrients from habitat, holds the plant in place

• Stems

• Seeds

• Flowers

• Roots

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Which adaptation might help protect a plant from being eaten?

• A thorny stem

• Long roots

• A waxy coating

• A substance that attracts insects

A nice smelling flower is an adaptation that does what?

• helps the plant keep water

• pokes an animal that may want to eat it

• attract animals to pollinate it

• absorb water

Which feature would help a plant that lives in the desert?

• small leaves

• large seeds

• spread out roots that are close to the surface

• smelly flowers

Which is NOT a way a seed could travel?

• water

• wind

• animals eat the fruit

• lightning