Question

D. Answer the following in brief.
1. What is adaptation?
2. How do plants survive in deserts?
3. Where do coconuts grow? How are the seeds of coconut dispersed?
4. What are carnivorous plants?
5. What are non-green plants?
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. The regular habit of a plant or animal to live at a place is called adaptation.

2. Plants survive in the desert by the process of transpiration. In this process, there is less water loss helping the plants to survive. Also, the leaves of cactus are adapted as spines resulting in less water loss.

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4. Insectivorous plants are carnivorous plants, as they eat insects. Eg - Venus Flytrap.

5. Mushrooms are non green plants.