Question

An ecosystem now receives far less rain than it used to. The weather also became drier and hotter. Over time, plants with structures that helped them to conserve water became more prevalent than plants that didn’t have those structures.From this information, we can conclude that the plants developed because of .

Answer 1

Succulent plants have adaptive strutures like thorns, leaves and also root strcutures which help them to store water, due to an imbalance in ecosystem.

Many animals in desert and semi-arid regions feed on these succulents where these plants store water in the tissues to cope with an imbalanced ecosystem.