Question

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1. Who was Clytie?

2. What was Clytie always doing?

3. What did she see when she looked at the sun in the evening?

4. What did Clytie do for nine days and nights?

5. How did she change?

6. What did she do after she had changed into a flower?

7.

Why is it said that her tears and sorrow were

in vain?

8. What do people now call Clytie? Why?

Think and answer.

1. How long does the sun take to move across the sky?

2. What does heliotrope mean? Was this an

appropriate name for Clytie?​

Answer 1

• Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts in response to the direction of the Sun. The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks.