Plant Transport

What does xylem transport?

• Water and minerals

• Water only

• Sugar

• Food

What does phloem transport?

• Water

• Minerals

• Fruit

• Sugar

Students are instructed to place leafy celery stalks into color water in a beaker overnight. The following day, the students observed the color of the celery leaves changed from green to red. The students cut across the edge of the celery and observed the small tube openings along the edge are also red.

How do the plant systems work together to make the movement of the liquid possible?

• The roots absorb the water, minerals move up the stem, while the stem moves food produced in the leaves down to the roots.

• The roots anchor the plant into the soil and the stem holds the leaves up.

• The roots absorb their own water and minerals and the leaves push out CO2.

• The roots lose water vapor to the soil and the stem loses water vapor through the leaves.

Without the process of transpiration, a plant would be unable to...

• Move sucrose from the leaves to the roots.

• Create new proteins for the plant.

• Pull up new water and mineral ions from the roots to the leaves.

• Grow towards the light.

Water gets into root hair cells through the process of ...

• diffusion

• active transport

• osmosis

Water and minerals move in which direction within the plant

• Upward

• Down

Transpiration is the:

• process by which plants release water vapor into the ground.

• Process by which plants release water vapor into the air.

• Process by which plants obtain food from soil.

• Process by which water is created.

The roots ________ system helps transport water and food particles throughout the plant.

• circulatory

• respiratory

• vascular

• heart

Both the xylem and phloem are considered-

• Stomata
• Leaves
• Roots
• Vascular tissue