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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.2. Dispersal of fruits and seeds 6 of 7

Question 6

A coconut is built for a voyage by sea. What does the water inside it provide?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A supply of fresh water for the seedling — on a journey across salt sea, where there is none to be had.

Each of the other three is a real job, done by a different part: the fibrous husk provides the buoyancy, the hard shell keeps the salt water out, and the kernel is the food store. Every part of a coconut is doing something for the voyage.

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