Unit 3 Lesson 2 How do Adaptations help plants?

the ability to produce flowers and seeds in the spring

What adaptation may help a plant survive in an environment with cold winters?

They may have less competition for resources

What is the advantage of seeds that can be spread over a wide area?

Succession

What is the predictable order of changes in a community after a change occurs.

Might not live because it's roots are too short to take in water.

What might happen to a plant that has a genetic mutation that results in shorter roots?

bendable stems

Which adaptation that might help a plant survive in a very windy environment?

adaptation

a characteristic that allows an organism to survive better in its environment.

mutation

a random change in a gene.

True

Plants with the best adaptations are most likely to survive.

succession

the predictable order of changes in communities after a change occurs