Name: Raw Materials for Photosynthesis
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 43 s
Description: Sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide and water are the ingredients needed by plants to make food. Find out how plants convert these materials into food through photosynthesis.

Question

Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows.
You come home from school one hot summer day and notice that your favourite potted plant, kept near your window, looks dull and droopy. You get a jug of water and lovingly pour the water into the soil around the plant. Then with concerned glances during the rest of the afternoon you notice how your plant slowly picks itself up and by the evening looks like its old self.
What brought about the changes in your plant?

Accepted Answer

During the hot summer day, the plant looks dull and droopy to avoid water loss by transpiration. Plants maintain their water balance through a process called transpiration that takes place in their leaves. As you pour water into the soil of the plant. Leaves release water from the plant through the stomata through transpiration and the plant slowly picks itself up and by the evening looks like its old self.

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