Biology Form 5

2.3 Main
Organ For
Transpiration
Team members

Anson Ting Hong Samuel Liong Zhi Steven Tang

Ling MING Tuong Kiong
1
The Necessity Of
Transpiration In Plants
• Transpiration is a process path of the water movement in plants
that involves loss of water
vapour through the stomata Stoma
of plants. The loss of water
vapour from the plant
cools the plant down when
the weather is very hot,
and water from the stem
and roots moves upwards
or is 'pulled' into the
leaves.
2 Why Is
Transpiration
Required In Plants
 Produces a pulling
force that moves
the water and
mineral salts
Water absorbs heat
continuously in the
Plant roots absorb energy from leaves
xylem vessels from
water and mineral and evaporates as
the roots to all plant
salts from soil. water vapour to
cells.
give cooling effect.
3
The Environmental Factors
That Affect The Rate Of
Transpiration
4 types environmental factors

1 2 3 4

Air
Light Relative air movement
Temperature
Intensity humidity
1
Light Intensity
The higher the light intensity, the
higher the rate of transpiration. If
the light intensity increase, the
rate of transpirations will increase
until it becomes constant. The
rate of transpiration is constant
because the relative air humidity,
temperature and air movement
become the limiting factors.
2 Relative air
humidity
The lower relative air humidity of
the surrounding atmosphere, the
faster water vapour escapes from
the stomata. Therefore, the rate of
transpiration becomes higher.
3 Temperature
Air increase in temperature
increases the kinetic energy of
water molecules thus increasing
the rate of respiration.
4
Air movement
The movement of air carries away
water molecules that have been
diffused out from the leaves.
Hence, the faster the air
movement, the faster the rate of
transpiration.
The rate of transpiration of the plant between desert and tropical rainforest

Desert Environmental factor Tropical rainforest

High Light intensity Low

low Relative air humitidy High

High Temperature Low

High Air movement Low

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