Adaptations & Biomes
📋 What it is
Each biome’s climate shapes its plants — tundra plants stay low, desert plants store water.
🗣️ Coach says
A plant’s adaptations match its biome. Tundra plants grow low and fast in the short cold summer; desert plants store water and shrink their leaves; rainforest plants grow huge to reach light. Show me a plant’s features and I can often guess its home climate.
🧠 Memory hook
Biome sets the plant: tundra low & fast, desert water-storing, rainforest tall.
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Some Arctic plants grow in a tight cushion shape to trap warmth and survive freezing winds — architecture as an adaptation.
✅ Quick check: Why do many tundra plants grow low to the ground?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
To stay out of freezing winds and trap warmth near the soil — an adaptation to the cold, harsh biome.
Low growth conserves heat and shelters from wind in cold biomes.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Pick a biome and describe how its plants would look (tall? low? spiny?) and why the climate causes it.