Transpiration in Plants

Which term best describes evaporation?

• The flowing of water from one location to the other.

• The process by which water changes from a liquid form to a gas.

• The process by which water is turned from a gaseous form to a liquid form.

• None of the above

Which of the following are steps in transpiration.

• Water vapor leaves the leaf through the stomata.

• Water is taken up by the roots from the soil.

• Water travels in the stem through the leaf.

• Sugar is moved throughout the plant.

Water travels up the xylem through

The water vapor enters the _______________ in the ____________ layer and then leaves the plant.

• Palisade, Xylem

• Cuticle, Phloem

• Lower Epidermis, Air Spaces

• Air Spaces, Spongy Mesophyll

What does the vascular bundle consist of?

• Palisade Mesophyll & Spongy Mesophyll

• Waxy Cuticle & Upper Epidermis

• Xylem & Phloem

• None of the Above

The plant can lose up to _________ of water through transpiration.

The main purpose of the guard cells are to:

• None

• Carry out photosynthesis.

• Create sugar.

• Control the opening and closing of the stomata.

Which statement best describes the stomata?

• A hole in the leaf.

• A tiny pore in the bottom of the leaf that allows for gas exchange between the leaf and the atmosphere.

• Guard Cells with vacuoles that get larger and smaller over the course of the day.

• None of the above.

The xylem carries both...

• Water

• Glucose

• Minerals

• Carbon dioxide

A Chloroplast is...

• the upper epidermis

• The spongy mesophyll

• The palisade mesophyll

• An organelle in the plant cell containing the pigment chlorophyll. This is where photosynthesis takes place.