Read these sentences from the text: "Hot, humid, and wet conditions are also ideal for bacteria and fungi to grow. Water trapped in the crevices of a plant, in combination with warm temperatures, is a breeding ground for bacterial and fungal growth, which can harm plants. One adaptation many plants have made in the tropical forest is to develop smooth bark so that water runs off quickly."

Explain how the adaptation these plants have made might help them.

Support your answer with evidence from the text.

there monkeys paw is old and they wish for being skinny, getting rich, and bring their son back.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.