Biology of Plants
Introduction
Starting to Grow
Plant Parts
Making Food
Pollination
Seed Dispersal
Plant Adaptations
Plants and Life on Earth

 

 

 

Plant Adaptations

What are adaptations?
Adaptations are special features that allow a plant or animal to live in a particular place or habitat.
Helpful term
biome—a place characterized by its climate and the plants and animals that live there.
Learn more about different places!

Terrestrial Biomes


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Plants have adaptations to help them survive (live and grow) in different areas. Adaptations are special features that allow a plant or animal to live in a particular place or habitat. These adaptations might make it very difficult for the plant to survive in a different place. This explains why certain plants are found in one area, but not in another. For example, you wouldn't see a cactus living in the Arctic. Nor would you see lots of really tall trees living in grasslands.

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Click on the different biomes or areas below to learn about them and some of the adaptations plants have to live there:
 

Desert
Desert
Grassland
Grassland
Tropical Rain Forest
Tropical Rain Forest
Temperate Rain Forest
Temperate Rain Forest
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Taiga
Taiga
Tundra
Tundra
In Water
In Water