Desert Plants Can Prevent Overheating by Utilizing All of the Following

question 20

Multiple Choice

Desert plants can prevent overheating by utilizing all of the following temperature regulating methods except

• A) paraheliotropism.
• B) decreasing rates of radiative heating.
• C) decreasing conductive heating.
• D) increasing evaporative cooling.
• E) increasing convective cooling.

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