Basic Questions  on "Transpiration"

1.    What is transpiration?

2.    How much absorbed water is used by plants in photosynthesis and other activities?

3.    What is the colour of dry cobalt chloride paper?

4.    What is the colour of wet/moistened cobalt chloride paper?

5.    What is the use of Ganong’s Potometer?

6.    How many kinds of transpiration are there?

7.    Draw well labeled diagram of ventral section of leaf.

8.    What are stomata?

9.    How many stomata are present per square cm of leaf?

10. Where is stomata present in large number in dicot plants (uuper epidermis or lower epidermis)

11. What are guard cells?

12. Where are stomata present in leaves?

13. Write two functions of stomata?

14. Where is mesophyll cells located in leaf?

15. What is the function of intercellular spaces in leaves?

16. How does water escape/diffuses through the stomata?

17. How does carbon di oxide diffuses through the stomata?

18. What is the relation between turgor pressure and diffusion of water vapour from the leaf?

19. How do leaf cells compensate lost water?

20. What is transpiration pull?

21. What is cuticle?

22. What are lenticels?

23.  Write factors which affect transpiration?

24. Write adaptations in plants to reduce excessive transpiration?

25. Write significance of transpiration?

26. How does transpiration affect climate?

27. What are hydathodes?

28. Write difference between guttation and bleeding.

29. Write difference between transpiration and guttation?