Plant Organisation

Transpiration is a type of ______.

• Liquidation

• Evaporation

• condensation

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Water is absorbed by the plant through the roots, and transpiration takes place as the water exits the ________.

• Leaves

• Roots

• Stem

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Which part of a plant is responsible for the majority of photosynthesis?

• Leaves

• Roots

• Stem

• Stomata

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What tubes transport water from the roots to the leaves?

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Roots

• Stem

What does phloem carry up the stem

• Sugar

• Water

• Oxygen

• All of the above

Xylem tissue is made up of dead cells

• True

• False

Transpiration is the loss of water through leaves by evaporation

• False

• True

The leaf has a shiny, waxy cuticle around it to

• increase the rate of photosynthesis

• control water loss

• attract more light

• stop carbon dioxide and oxygen gases escaping

Transpiration helps the plant

• make more sugars at night

• move water from the roots to the stem and leaves

• move sugars from the leaf to be stored in the stem & roots

• make more chloroplasts

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Translocation is...

• the movement of water through the plant from the leaves to the roots

• the movement of glucose from the roots to the stem and leaves

• the movement of water from the roots to the stem and leaves

• the movement of glucose through the plant from the leaves to other parts of the plant

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