CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations and Responses Study Guide
See how plants have adapted to many different environments, including the water, the desert, and the air.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of how plants have adapated to their environments.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of how plants have adapated to their environments.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
World Wildlife Fund: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Deserts
An overview of the climate conditions of deserts. Includes examples of plants and the adaptations that allow them to survive in the dry climate. Includes a link to information about animals that live in a desert habitat.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Desert Plants
Site contains information on desert plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to biomes, a biome summary, how to read a climograph and more!
Curated OER
National Park Service: Arches National Park: Plants
Information about the cacti, grasses, lichens, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers that grow in Arches National Park, located in Moab, Utah. Focus is placed on the adaptations of these plants that allow survival in a desert habitat.
Center for Educational Technologies
Wheeling Jesuit University: Arctic Tundra Biome
Provides text and pictures on the arctic tundra, its animals, plants, and their adaptations.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plant and Animal Habitats
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explains plant and animal habitats with brilliant pictures and photos. It also includes discussion and non-Activote questions.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Desert Laboratory
Founded in 1903 to study plant adaptation to an arid desert environment with long term experiments, this laboratory contributed significantly to the formation of Ecology as a science. Part of the University of Arizona.