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How do plants live and survive?
Like humans and animals, plants need both water and nutrients (food) to survive. Most all plants use water to carry moisture and nutrients back and forth between the roots and leaves. Fertilizer also provides plants with nutrients and is usually given to plants when watering.
How do plants survive in nature?
Like all organisms, plants compete with one another for what they need to survive and grow—sunlight, water, and nutrients. Each plant has its own strategy for winning its battle with other plants. Vines, like ivy and honeysuckle, climb the trunks of trees to get a greater share of sunlight.
Why do plants live?
Plants are really important for the planet and for all living things. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which humans and other animals need to breathe. Living things need plants to live – they eat them and live in them. Plants help to clean water too.
How do flowers survive?
Plants, unlike animals, manufacture their own food using the energy of the sun in a process called photosynthesis. To do this, they need oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and a number of minerals absorbed by the roots from the soil.
What is the lifecycle of a plant?
The plant life cycle consists of four stages; seed, sprout, small plant, and adult plant. When the seed gets planted into the soil with water and sun, then it will start to grow into a small sprout. The sun helps the plant to produce food which it will need when it becomes a small plant.
How do plants adapt?
Plants adapt to their environment from necessity. Plants may also adapt by growing lower and closer to the ground to shield themselves from wind and cold. Desert environments may have some of the following adaptations, these help the plant to conserve food, energy and water and still be able to reproduce effectively.
How do plants survive in water?
Aquatic plants require special adaptations for living submerged in water, or at the water’s surface. The most common adaptation is the presence of lightweight internal packing cells, aerenchyma, but floating leaves and finely dissected leaves are also common.