Chapter 7 Adaptations of plants in different habitat

What it is called when a plant or animal has a trait that helps it survive in a specific environment?

• Instinct

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

• Adaptation

An adaptation that helps this plant live in the desert is

• Wide, flat leaves to catch water

• Thin, spiny needles

• Bright green colour

• Tall stems

Adaptive features of leaf of Lotus plant:

• Waxy layer to protect ot from rotting in water

• Broad leaves to help it float

• Stomata on the top surfaces of the leaf

• All of above

Halophytes refers to

• Plants that lives in a habitat that is not too dry nor too wet with an adequate water supply.

• Plants that live in aquatic habitats, either on the water surface or submerged in the water.

• Plants that live in swampy habitats at the river mouth, the meeting point of fresh water and seawater.

• Plants that live in a habitat that is hot and dry with a minimum presence of water, that is, a place with very high temperature.

Which is the correct answer to describe the adaptation of a mangrove tree?

• Leaves have cuticle and sunken stomata to reduce the rate of transpiration.

• Has breathing roots for gaseous exchange.

• Leaves are succulent leaves to store water.

• All of above.

This plant has light tissues with plenty of air spaces between cells. These tissue are known as

• Aerenchyma tissues

• Spongy tissues

• Parenchyma tissues

• Sclerenchyma tissues

Which of the following cause the highest rate of transpiration well-watered mesophytes?

• Windy, cool, high humidity, bright sunshine.

• Still air, hot, high humidity, bright sunshine.

• Windy, hot, high humidity, cloudy.

• Windy, hot, low humidity, bright sunshine.