# The Cactus: Adaptations for Survival

With teacher's guide

Producer, Ed Harris; collaborator, Charles Ackerman

Laboratory experiments are employed to demonstrate the unique physical characteristics and life cycles which permit the cactus to adapt successfully to harsh environments. Explains the plant's water-conserving abilities and its growth in areas hostile to other plants. Studies the spread of the prickly-pear cactus in Australia

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1973
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thecactusadaptationsforsurvival)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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