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[115]. Read the following passage carefully:
Passage: "Salt marshes are neither land nor sea. Twice a day the tide covers them, and twice it leaves them. Plants there must tolerate salt and drowning in turn. Birds come for the rich mud, full of worms and shellfish. People once called marshes wasteland, but they protect coasts from storms and filter water. A marsh is a working landscape, not an empty one." Why must marsh plants tolerate salt and drowning?
Option 3 : Because tides cover and uncover them twice daily
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर Because tides cover and uncover them twice daily है।
Tidal covering imposes both stresses.
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[115]. Read the following passage carefully:
Passage: "Salt marshes are neither land nor sea. Twice a day the tide covers them, and twice it leaves them. Plants there must tolerate salt and drowning in turn. Birds come for the rich mud, full of worms and shellfish. People once called marshes wasteland, but they protect coasts from storms and filter water. A marsh is a working landscape, not an empty one." Why must marsh plants tolerate salt and drowning?
Correct Answer: Because tides cover and uncover them twice daily
Tidal covering imposes both stresses.