Survival on Land

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• What are some examples of plant adaptations for survival on land?
• How do stomata help conserve water?
• What do mycorrhizae get from plants?
• What are some examples of vascular tissue?
• Can the coca plant grow in any climate?
• Why are vascular plants the most successful land plants?
• What are the three adaptations of plants needed to survive on land?
• What adaptation allowed plants to live on land?
• What was a prerequisite for the survival of life on land?
• What are three evolutionary innovations that improved the probability of survival on land among vascular plants?
• How did plants first move from the oceans to land?
• What were the first plants to adapt to life on land?
• What types of plants first evolved to survive on land?
• How tall were the first land based plants?
• What was the biggest hurdle that land based plants had to overcome when first evolve from aquatic life?
• How might the adaptation of specialized water-conducting tissue have helped land plants meet challenges to life on land?