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What causes water to travel from a plant's roots to its stems?

Imbibition


What causes water to travel from a plants roots to its stem?

Imbibition


How fast do water and nutrients travel in plants?

Very Fast! If roots are dry and leaves are drooping and you water them, it takes less than an hour or so before the leaves start standing back up towards the light...so i think it takes water less than an hour to travel from roots to all the leaves.


What causes shoots and leaves to elongate?

Leaves and shoots grow towards light in a reaction known as phototropism. Similarly, an attribute called geotropism causes roots to grow down towards gravity.


How do water and minerals enter the leaves?

Water enters the leaves through the roots via the xylem tissue, a system of water-conducting cells. Minerals are absorbed from the soil by the roots and transported through the xylem with water. These substances then travel from the roots, through the stem, and eventually reach the leaves where they are used for photosynthesis and other metabolic processes.


Do water and minerals travel through xylem tubes from the roots to the leaves?

Yes, water and other minerals flow upwards through xylem tubes from the roots to the leaves so that the leaves can combine it with sunlight, CO2, and chlorophyll, to do photosynthesis (the process of making food for the plant.


What are leaves roots and stems?

leaves roots and stems are part of a tree


Do plants make food in their roots stems flowers leaves?

They mostly do it in their leaves because that is where the choloroplast is and it holds cholorophyll that causes photosynthesis which is the process of making food for a plant.


What part of the root does the food flow down through?

the food made in the leaves travel through stem to the roots.


Plants that have tube like structures for water and nutrients to travel up and down from roots to leaves?

A chemical that is energized by photosynthesis


What are plants that have tube-like structures for water and nutrients to travel up and down from Roots to leaves?

A chemical that is energized by photosynthesis


What are plants that have tubes like structures for water and nutrients to travel up and down from roots to leaves?

A chemical that is energized by photosynthesis