Plants and Adaptations

What do we call the process by which a plant makes its own food?

• Photograph

• Photobomb

• Photosynthesis

• Photographic memory

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Which of these is an example of a plant adaptation.

• A plant needs sunlight to survive.

• Vines that can stick to walls and grow up trees or buildings to get their leaves closer to the sun.

• Roots soak up water and nutrients from the soil.

• People cut down trees to make lumber for houses.

Which of these plant parts makes the food for the plant?

• Leaf

• Stem

• Roots

• Bark

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What is the other word for the sugars that the plants make for food?

• Honey

• Stuff

• Glue

• Glucose

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Which plant part gets the water and the nutrients from the soil?

• Stem

• Roots

• Leaves

• Sunlight

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Which plant part carries the water and nutrients to the leaves?

• Leaves

• Roots

• Seed

• Stem

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What is an adaptation?

• No one really knows.

• An animal's home.

• Something a living thing has developed in order to help it survive better.

• Mr. Lanagan's big belly.

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Which of these would make a good adaptation for a small ground animal that gets attacked a lot by larger animals?

• Night vision

• Claws to climb trees

• Sharper teeth

• Thick fur

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What adaptation might a rose have?

• Spots that look like eyes

• Thorns

• Bad smell

• Thick fur.

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What might be an adaptation of a cactus?

• Needles.

• Big leaves

• Wings

• Poisonous oils