Tropical Rainforest Plants Adaptations To Environment
Get Sunlight Water Air or Nutrients SWAN Not be eaten Stay attached to a tree or rooted in the ground Reproduce Tropical Rainforest Adaptations The climate of the tropical rainforest is hot and wet.
Tropical rainforest plants adaptations to environment. People also ask how do animals and plants adapt to the tropical rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight. The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest.
Below this layer there is very little sunlight and trees have adapted to growing branches and leaves where sunlight can be obtained. Rainforest plants and animals have developed adaptations that help them to thrive. Their leaves and flowers grow in the canopy.
Tree trunks - these are tall and thin to allow trees to reach the sunlight. Tropical rainforest trees generally have thin bark. Tropical Rainforest Tree Adaptations.
People also ask how do animals and plants adapt to the rainforest. Most plants in the tropical rainforest have adapted to the strong sunlight heavy rain thin soils and dark conditions in the undergrowth. Tropical rainforest flora have to adapt to an environment that is always hot and wet.
Many camouflaged rainforest animals such as walking stick insects which look just like a tree branch and the slow-moving green algae-covered sloths that hang from trees and blend in with their environment use camouflage to avoid predators. The leaves of forest trees have adapted to cope with exceptionally high rainfall. A few examples of tropical rainforest plants are Avocado Trees Orchids Ferns Bromeliads Banana Trees Rubber Trees Bamboo Trees Cacao etc.
These are generally to do with obtaining nutrient obtaining maximum sunlight encouraging water run-off from leaves or avoiding being eaten by insects or animals. For example some trees such as the kapok grow very tall because of the competition for sunlight. Secondly what kinds of plants and animals live in the tropical rainforest.