ASP 6.2 Vocabulary

What is the term for the changing of a liquid into a gas?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Sublimation

• Freezing

What is the term for the part of the root zone moisture that is consumed by evaporation and transpiration combined, including all water consumed by plants plus the water evaporated from bare land and water surface?

• Evapotranspiration

• Infiltration

• Percolation

• Runoff

What is the term for moisture in the atmosphere?

• Humidity

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

What is the hydrostatic pressure required to stop osmosis or prevent diffusion of molecules of a dilute solution from passing through the walls of a semipermeable membrane into a more-concentrated solution called?

• Osmotic pressure

• Turgor pressure

• Atmospheric pressure

• Hydrostatic pressure

What is the principle tissue concerned with the translocation of elaborated food produced in the leaves, or other areas, downward in the branches, stem, and roots called?

• Phloem

• Xylem

• Cambium

• Epidermis

What is the process by which green plants, using chlorophyll and the energy of sunlight, produce carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide, and release oxygen called?

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Transpiration

• Fermentation

What is an opening surrounded by guard cells that opens into an internal air cavity below the epidermis of a leaf called?

• Stomata (stomate)

• Lenticel

• Trichome

• Cuticle

What is the transfer of the products of metabolism, etc., from one part of a plant to another called?

• Translocate

• Transpiration

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

What is the process by which water vapor is released to the atmosphere by the leaves or other parts of a living plant called?

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

What is a tension within a plant generated by transpiration and exerting a pulling force, which is a major factor in the rise of water in plants, called?

• Transpiration pull

• Root pressure

• Capillary action

• Osmotic pressure