Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
There is a general belief that forests tend to bring more frequent rains. Can you explain it scientifically?
Advertisements
Solution
Forests have large number of plants especially trees. Each plant loses water in the form of water vapour everyday into the atmosphere through transpiration. A large apple tree loses as much as 30 litres of water per day. So huge amount of water is escaped into the atmosphere by forests. This increases the moisture in the atmosphere and brings more frequent rains.
RELATED QUESTIONS
With decrease in atmospheric pressure, the rate of transpiration will
Transpiration is best defined as
Given below is an apparatus which has setup to investigate a physiological process in plants. The setup was placed in bright sunlight. Answer the questions that follow:
Name the process being studies. Define the process.
Explain how the rate of transpiration is affected on:
a windy day
Choose the correct answer:
Rate of transpiration is more, when __________
What is cohesion?
How does the rate of Transpiration differ when there is High temperature?
How does the rate of Transpiration differ when there is High humidity?
