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GROUP MEMBERS:

CLAUDIA MUSIH NOOR HAJAH SANITA BT MOHD SATAR

D20101037447 D20091035086

Do plant sweat??

Rate of transpiration

Scientific concept Engage Empower

Enhance

Advantages of using data logger

Scientific concept

1. Transpiration is evaporation of water into the atmosphere from the leaves and stems of plants.
2. Some environmental conditions create the driving force for movement of water out of the plant. Others alter the plants ability to control water loss. 3. Temperature greatly influences the magnitude of the driving force for water movement out of a plant rather than having a direct effect on stomata. 4. As temperature increases, the water holding capacity of that air increases sharply. 5. Warmer air holds more water, creating large driving force for water movement out of the plant, thus causing increase of rate of transpiration.

Engage

When a plant is left for 3 days without water, the plant wilt. Why do you think this happen?

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What we need...

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Setting up the apparatus...

Plant A (expose to light)

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Plant B (Not expose to light)

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Result...

Graph of temperature vs time

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Observation

Plant A (expose to light)

Questions

1. What difference can you see between these two plant?

2. Does the presence of light affect on the plant?

3. Why the plastic bag turn cloudy? 4. Why transpiration are important in plant? 5. What another factor influence the rate of transpiration?

Enhance

How does desert plant adapted to dry conditions found in arid environment?

Fishhook Cactus Mammillaria microcarpa

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1. Reduction of leaves- often into spines for protection. The flat surface of normal leaves provides a huge area for water loss.

2. Coating the plant with a thick waxy cuticle. This helps reduce water loss. 3. A dense coating of hairs (trichomes). This slows air moving over the surface of the plant; since air in the desert is very dry any air movement tends to increase evaporation. The trichomes create a microlayer of humid air around the pant, particularly in the vicinity of the stomata.

Advantages of using data logger

Result more accurate

More than one sensor can be used at the same time -Two temperature sensor

We can get the result immediately

We can set the time for the experiment to run. For this experiment, we run the experiment for 10 minutes.

Thank you...