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B1 Intermediate English 5:41 Educational

David Attenborough: The Fascinating Life Cycle of Desert Plants | Nature Bites

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B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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Subtitles (88 segments)

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some desert plants that live in

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exceptionally hot dry conditions take

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even more drastic measures

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leaves are very thin and have a large

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surface area so they lose a lot of

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moisture in heat and many desert plants

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have done without them altogether

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instead the valuable green pigment

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develops in the stems

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and desert stems are often very thick

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and swollen and that enables a plant to

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store water in them not only that

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but some desert plants have pleats in

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these stems

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so that when there is a sudden rainstorm

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those ridges can suck up all the

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moisture while it's there and expand in

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order to hold it

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