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Asked by anon-186556 to Verity, Raquel, Danny, Catherine on 13 Nov 2018.
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Danny Ward answered on 13 Nov 2018:
Plants can move to a certain extent. They have a process called tropism. This allows them to very slowly respond to their environment. They can change their angle of growth to get more sunlight and water for example. They are able to control their movement through plant hormones which they produce. An example is a plant hormone called auxin which controls stem and root growth direction 🌱
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Verity Hill answered on 13 Nov 2018:
Plants can’t move like animals do because they don’t have any muscles or nerves to control them! What’s fun about this is that it means they have to adapt to deal with things very differently to animals – a rabbit can run away from a fox, but a plant can’t run away from a caterpillar. For example, this is why cactuses have spikes, or some plants are poisonous. Another thing is that they can’t move to find other plants to reproduce with, so they have to get their pollen out differently! For example, some plants have pollen that blows in the wind, and some rely on animals like bees to get it around.
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