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ACTIVITY 1

ACTIVITY 1. SURVIVOR !. OBJECTIVE. Identify the plant adaptations that provide the best opportunity for survival in a particular environment. DIRECTIONS. Each team has five cards in their SURVIVOR envelope – plant photos & descriptions.

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ACTIVITY 1

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  1. ACTIVITY 1 SURVIVOR !

  2. OBJECTIVE • Identify the plant adaptations that provide the best opportunity for survival in a particular environment

  3. DIRECTIONS • Each team has five cards in their SURVIVOR envelope – plant photos & descriptions. • One at a time, you will receive a certain clue - a characteristic of the local environment and you will “vote out” any plant(s) that does not have adaptations for that characteristic – “X” out the plant’s name on your worksheet. • After several clues about the local environment, we’ll see which plant is the SOLE SURVIVOR !

  4. ENVIRONMENT CLUES • IT IS ALWAYS VERY HOT • IT IS ALWAYS VERY DRY • BECAUSE WATER IS SCARCE, ANIMALS HERE OFTEN CHOMP ON PLANTS TO GET THE WATER STORED IN THEM

  5. SOLE SURVIVOR ! FEROCACTUS !

  6. CONGRATULATIONS! You have matched plant adaptations to an environment!

  7. Scientists do this with fossil plants too If a fossil’s adaptations are similar to modern plants = similar purpose for survival

  8. GLOSSOPTERIS BALD CYPRESS MODERN EXTINCT! SWAMPS IN SOUTHEAST U.S. FOUND ONLY AS FOSSILS LIVED 250 MILLION YEARS AGO Similar tree shape & specialized roots Wetlands (swamp) environment Glossopteris reconstruction courtesy of Rose Prevec; photo of bald cypress seeds, courtesy of University of Kentucky Horticulture Department; photo of bald cypress tree, courtesy of U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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