Plants grow all over the world. They make the best use they can of the soil, water and sunlight. Where it is hot and wet, the trees grow very tall. Where it is cold and windy, the plants are very small.

These plants grow on a mountain.

Alpine plants have small leaves and thick stems to help them survive on a cold, windy mountainside.

 

 

 

These trees grow in hot, wet places.

Trees in hot, steamy rainforests must be tall to reach the sunlight.

 

 

 

 

 

Seaweed grows in the sea.

Seaweed has adapted to living in salt water. Some seaweed has pockets filled with air on its leaves. This helps it to float near the surface so that sunlight can reach it.

 

 

 

This plant is growing on another plant.

This is a mistletoe plant. It is growing on an apple tree. It has green leaves so it can make its own food, but it also takes food and water from the tree. It grows high up on the tree so it has plenty of light. Mistletoe does not usually kill the plant it lives on. If the apple tree dies, so does the mistletoe.