Question

During a hurricane, salt water invades fresh water marshes causing many of the plants to die and ultimately the loss of soil. The plants are killed because the salt water solution causes _____________ their cells.

Answer 1

Dehydration

Step-by-step explanation:

I think because plants need clean water not slaty

Answer 2

Answer: Hypertonic

Step-by-step explanation:

Hypertonic condition can be defined as the condition where the solution has higher osmotic pressure than other solution.

It can also be defined as the condition in which the number of solutes outside the cell is greater than inside of the cell.

In this condition, there is a movement of particles from the outside of the cell to inside due to which the cell swells up and dies.

Here, the same happened with the plants of fresh water in which the salt concentration due to hurricane was high outside the cell and it flowed inside the cell and the cell busted and died.