How plants have adapted themselves to their surroundings?

Answer 1

If a plant's surroundings do not have enough water, it adapts by having thick and waxy layers on its leaves to keep water from evaporating.

Other plants that grow in areas with bad air and water circulation have aerial roots which are above ground. The roots give additional support to the plant and also help to absorb more water vapour from the air.

Some plants adapt to float on water. To enable this, they have waxy leaves that keep water droplets from forming (so that they won't sink) or they have leaves with air pockets to help them stay afloat.

Answer 2

"Adaptations to environment" can refer to two type of adaptations; recent adaptions (within a few years or hundred years) and distant adaptations, those that have taken thousands or hundreds of thousands of years to come about.

Example of recent adaptations:

Plants (that are for example) indigenous to South America are collected and moved to a garden in Europe. There are obvious differences in climate, geology and season. How the plants adapt to life in their new environment can then be compared to the plant growing in its indigenous/ endemic environment. Normally a move like this would affect flowering, flowering period and duration as well as the leaf size of the plant. It has not necessarily changed the genetic make up of the plants (or subsequent generations) only the morphology of the plant. If the plants from Europe were treated properly and survived and again transported back to their original location in South America they would revert within a few months or years and look like the local plants again.

Examples of distant adaptations:

This is a more permanent adaptation, where the plant over successive generations (normally through natural selection) has developed changes in its physical morphology to enable it to survive in a hostile or changing environment. A good example of this is/ are cactus plants, where over millennia leaves were replaced by spines, a thicker cuticle developed as did a more efficient method of collecting rain.

Every plant has adaptations that make it unique and able to thrive in its native habitat; the easiest way to identify these are to try and establish where the plant originated from and then compare the plant to what the local conditions are in that area (rainfall, temperature, light quality and quantity, soil type, pollination agents etc.)
plants can be adapted to their environments because:

if the weather is hot and dry the plant roots will stretch to the point where there is water. when the weather is cool and wet the roots stay where they are and enjoy......

Answer 3

well, when a plant can't live well or has difficulty surviving, the seeds it releases will be slightly different from its original form (like getting the ability to suck in more water) . The mutation will go on until the plants have no difficulty surviving. this is called an "adaption".

Answer 4

They use stimulus to adopt themselves to their environment. A cactus has spikes that store water, because of water shortages in the desert. In some forests, trees have to grow taller to gain sunlight. Also, plants react to different factors in different ways. Almost every plant turns its leaves toward the sun.

Answer 5

Because of the great climate we have here.