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Think of a puddle of water evaporating on the ground. Will that puddle evaporate more quickly with wind or without wind? The water molecules will only evaporate when they gain enough kinetic energy to break free and become vapor. Wind facilitates this by giving the molecules that extra push of energy.
The same applies to plants and transpiration. Wind will increase the rate of transpiration and water-loss through the leaves of a plant. However, initial water-loss triggers the closing action of the stomata (openings by which water evaporates) and transpiration rate will slow.
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What factors influence the rate of transpiration in plants and what affects transpiration?
The rate of transpiration in plants is influenced by factors such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, and light intensity. These factors affect transpiration by impacting the rate at which water evaporates from the plant's leaves.
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Name a factor that affects transpiration rate
What environmental factors increased the rate of transpiration?
Heat and wind.
What is the rate of transpiration effected by?
The rate of traspiration is effected by light intensity, humidity and wind velocity etc.
How does wind affect the rate of transpiration in plants?
Wind can increase the rate of transpiration in plants by causing water to evaporate more quickly from the leaves. This is because wind removes the layer of humid air surrounding the leaf, allowing for more efficient water loss through the stomata.
Does a leaf sweat?
By transpiration. Water molecules pass out of the leaf by diffusion following the concentration gradient from higher concentration to lower concentration. The rate of transpiration varies. Factors that affect the rate of transpiration includes wind speed, light intensity, temperature and humidity
How does wind affect rate of transpiration of stomata?
It takes the seed more faster and it might take the seed to some place it can't grow. Rate of transpiration increases with the increased wind velocity upto certain limit thereafter it starts declining due to closure of stomata.
Did any of the environmental factors heat light or wind increase the transpiration rate more than the others Why?
Wind generally increases transpiration rate more than heat or light because it creates a lower humidity and a higher concentration gradient between the leaf stomata and the surrounding air. This leads to faster water evaporation from the leaf surface. Heat and light can also increase transpiration by accelerating the rate of water evaporation, but wind has a more direct and significant impact.
What is the operational definition of the rate of transpiration?
The rate of transpiration is the position of air bubble
Why does wind increase transpirtation in a plant?
Wind can increase transpiration in a plant by increasing the rate of evaporation from the plant's leaves. When there is wind, it removes the water vapor surrounding the leaves, creating a lower concentration of water in the air which causes more water to move out of the plant through transpiration to maintain equilibrium.
How does mist affect the rate of transpiration?
How does humidity affect the rate of transpiration
Why is the rate of transpiration is not the same all time?
Because sometimes you walk fast and sometimes you walk slowly.
