Overview
In your initial discussion thread, in free form (no less than 350 words) include the items listed below and in the assignment.
- Why do plants have a vital role in nature?
- List some of the extraordinary ways shown in the film that plants use to survive.
- Discuss the co-evolution of flowers and insects.
- What strategy does Amazon water lily use to make sure its flowers are pollinated?
- -What are some additional sources of nutrients and minerals that plants that grow in nutrient-poor soils use?
- Each species of flowering plant has its own unique evolutionary story that is closely linked to the animals that pollinated it. But one family of flowering plant has developed this relationship in more complex ways than any other, and in doing so has become the most numerous and diverse on the planet, which includes an estimated number of 25,000 species. Which family is that?
- Why is the lower lip of an orchid flower different from the rest of the petals?
- A diversity of species is the greatest in a rainforest. In an environment with so many species, why is it important to save this biodiversity? Why losing even one species of plant might be detrimental? What chain of events will follow the loss of one species of plant?
- What environments on Earth do plants occupy?
- Out of many plants you saw in the film, which ones you think are the most bizarre? Most beautiful?