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Question
An outline sketch of a tree is shown in a diagram below. Study the same and answer the questions that follow:
- Name and define the phenomenon labelled A in the diagram.
- Write the significance of the process mentioned in A for the plants.
- What do the direction of the arrows in B and C indicate? Name the phenomena.
- Draw a neat and labelled diagram of an opened stomata.
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Solution
- Transpiration, in plants, is the evaporative loss of water from aerial portions (leaves and stems).
- Significance of transpiration for the plants:
- Cooling effect
- Creating Suction force
- Distribution of water and minerals.
- Arrow B shows water rising up the trunk, and the phenomenon is lenticular transpiration in the ascent of sap.
Endosmosis is the phenomenon whereby arrow C denotes water absorbed by roots from the earth. 
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