If water had weak surface tension why would plants still be able to draw water from the ground through their roots? PLEASE HELP ASAP!!

My question says on my assignment. read the following scenarios and decide which of the properties of life are being described. the first one is. katherine stopped on the way to school to grab some donuts. 2. because a dog cannot sweat, it has to pant in order to stay cool. 3. an elephant trun had no bone but 4,000 muscles. i have no idea what i am supposed to anwer. i can't find the answer in my notes or book that i can understand anyway

Wich organism obtains its energy from dead or decaying matter

The pacific plate is an oceanic tectonic plate. how did a hot and the pacific plate interact to form the hawaiian islands?