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    Answers To Worksheets: Worksheet 8.1 The Pathway of Water Movement Through A Plant

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    Water moves up through a plant via transpiration through the stomata in leaves. This causes tension that pulls water upwards through the xylem. As water is lost from leaves, the water potential inside leaf cells decreases, creating a gradient for water to move out of xylem vessels into mesophyll cells by osmosis. This removal of water from the top of xylem vessels makes their potential lower than the base, drawing water up the vessels in a continuous column through cohesion between water molecules and adhesion to vessel walls.

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    Water moves up through a plant via transpiration through the stomata in leaves. This causes tension that pulls water upwards through the xylem. As water is lost from leaves, the water potential inside leaf cells decreases, creating a gradient for water to move out of xylem vessels into mesophyll cells by osmosis. This removal of water from the top of xylem vessels makes their potential lower than the base, drawing water up the vessels in a continuous column through cohesion between water molecules and adhesion to vessel walls.

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    Water moves up through a plant via transpiration through the stomata in leaves. This causes tension that pulls water upwards through the xylem. As water is lost from leaves, the water potential inside leaf cells decreases, creating a gradient for water to move out of xylem vessels into mesophyll cells by osmosis. This removal of water from the top of xylem vessels makes their potential lower than the base, drawing water up the vessels in a continuous column through cohesion between water molecules and adhesion to vessel walls.

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    Chapter 8
    1
    Worksheet
    8.1 The pathway of water movement through a plant
    1

    2 root hair 1, root cortex cells 2, xylem 3, mesophyll cells 4, stomata 5


    3 Blue circles for root hair, root cortex cells, xylem, mesophyll cells
    4 Red circle for stomata

    Worksheet 8.2 The mechanism of water movement through a plant


    Water moves up through a plant as the result of transpiration, which is the loss of water
    vapour through the stomata in the leaves. This produces a tension, called transpiration pull,
    which pulls columns of water up through the xylem.
    As water vapour is lost from the leaves, this reduces the water potential inside the air
    spaces in the leaf mesophyll layers. This causes water to evaporate from the cell walls of the
    mesophyll cells. This reduces the water potential inside the mesophyll cells, producing a water
    potential gradient from the xylem vessels in the leaf into the cells. Water therefore moves out
    of the xylem vessels, into the mesophyll cells. It moves into these cells by osmosis.
    This removal of water from the upper parts of the xylem vessels causes the water potential
    at their tops to be lower than the water potential at their bases. Water is therefore drawn
    up through the xylem vessels in a continuous column. It moves by mass flow. The column
    remains continuous because water molecules are attracted to each other by cohesion, and to
    the walls of the xylem vessels by adhesion.
    Cambridge University Press 2014

    IGCSE Biology

    Chapter 8: Answers to Worksheets

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