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Transpiration

Objectives:
- Find out how water vapor is lost from
plant leaves.
- Define transpiration
- Summarise why plants need water.
Symplast Apoplast and Vacuolar
Pathway – YouTube (0:53-1:22)

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How water moves through leaves

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Water goes Across the To its centre And then up Towards the
into a root root through the leaves.
root and stem

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Now think,
What happens
to the water
when it
reaches the
leaves?
This diagram shows a section through
part of leaf.
The arrows
show how
water moves
out of the
xylem
vessels, and
into the leaf.
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Bing Videos 1:25-2:01
• When water arrives at a leaf:
• - It moves out of the xylem vessels and into the leaf cells
.
• The cells that have chloroplasts use some
of the water for photosynthesis.

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• The liquid water in the cell soaks into the cellulose cell
wall and then changes into water vapour. ( It evaporates
)
• The water vapour diffuses into the air spaces between
the cells.
• The air spaces connect with the air outside
the leaf through stomata.
The water vapour can diffuse through
stomata and into the air .

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The loss of
water
vapour
from leaves
is
8 transpiratio
Why plants need water?

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Water for Water for Water for Water for
support transport cooling photosynthesis

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Water for support
When a plant cell • Plant is strong and firm.
• When all the plant cells have water, they press on one
contain water another and make the whole plant firm and supported .

• Plant becomes soft and floppy.


When a plant cell • When all the plant cells don’t have water, the plant

doesn’t contain water collapses.


• It has wilted.

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As water moves through the xylem vessels, it
Water for
•

carries dissolved mineral salts. This is how mineral


transport salts are transported from the roots to all the parts
of the plant.

Water for • When water evaporates, it takes away heat with it.
• Water cools the cell .
cooling • This is important for plants that live in very hot places.

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Water for
photosynthesis

- Water is one of the reactants in photosynthesis.


- In photosynthesis, plants change water and carbon
dioxide to glucose and oxygen.

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