Question

how plants like cactus and Acacia live in desert with scare water

Answer 1

Cactus roots lie close to the surface of the ground, even a degraded soil, a desert, gets some rain and cactus can catch water from these rains. Cactus don`t have leaves to absorb water in fact they don`t need a lot water to survive. Their stems store the water from desert rains and help the plant survive

Answer 2

they have spines which help them to conserve water by the process of transpiration