How Mangrove Trees Drink Salty Water and Manage Salt for 8-Year-Olds

Mangrove trees are special plants that live near the ocean where the water is salty. Most plants don't like salt, but mangroves have a clever way to drink salty water and stay healthy.

Here’s how it works step by step:

1. Drinking salty water: Mangrove trees use their roots to soak up water from the soil, even if it has salt in it.
2. Handling the salt: Instead of letting the salt harm the tree, mangroves move the extra salt from the water into their leaves.
3. Getting rid of salt: After putting salt into the leaves, the tree drops those salty leaves off, so the salt leaves with them.

This way, mangrove trees can live in salty places where most other trees cannot survive!