What is the name of the process in which plants lose water into the atmosphere?
The process might be characterized as administration of water inside a plant. The thing is that a plant "decides" what amount of water is enough for its metabolism and growth of roots and leaves. After the administration is done, the waste water is released into the atmosphere through the special micro holes (though it's more correct to call them pores) located on the surface of a leaf. Besides, the process serves as a natural cooler for the plants.
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Michael L Reinhardt
How is it more people got this wrong than right? This is something we all were taught in school. There is a reason other countries are ahead of us.
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Sep 16, 2015 2:18PM
Sarah Hearn-vonFoerster
A solid basis in Latin would help all school children later in life.
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Nov 4, 2015 2:36PM
eugene wilson
even when I was in school it was proven Canadian students knew more about U.S.A. than American students. I personally think every student should either leave cellphone,tablets etc.. in the lockers or at the front of the class and open a real book and learn how to print and write properly by hand.
Also Canadian students generally had higher grades than their American counterparts.
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Feb 2, 2016 11:00PM
Bill Coe
Maryann Massar I live in Canada (Manitoba) and winter in South Carolina. When people ask me where I'm from I try to explain in terms that they will understand - "North of North Dakota". They dont' know where North Dakota is. I can identify every state on a map of the US and tell you the capital city of most.
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Nov 10, 2016 10:45PM
Charles Schap
Michael L Reinhardt, Most students do learn this, at least they are taught. Unfortunately, studying and having parental support for it aren't a priority as it is in the Far East and most European countries. Education is not emphasized nor supported by our government or population in general.
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Nov 18, 2018 6:23PM
Mark Johnson
You would be amazed by how many kids that don't pay attention and the teachers pass them even though they fail at the subjects. It's a poor education system.
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Oct 17, 2015 2:38PM
Glynis Rix
I chose without thinking!
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Dec 21, 2022 11:54AM
Georgia Kemp
Bill Coe, You could say North of South Dakota and if they say North Dakota, say no, further. I am in the North Island of NZ. I describe it as North of the South Island which is south of the North Island.
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Nov 3, 2022 4:43AM
Merri Sillery
Pierre Curtis, you almost have to if you wish to travel. We have states larger than most european countries. The people that live in them have yet to see all of their own state. There is plenty to see in the US and very few people have seen all 50 states. Besides until just recently we could travel through Mexico and Canada without a passport. Also most countries don't require passports for US military personnel, I spent over 20 years in the military and traveled all over, Europe, Asia and the Mid East without a passport.
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Mar 20, 2021 11:55PM
james parrillo
kite005, I think it is because students are learning less and less, in some school systems. I even had anatomy and physiology in high school many years ago, but did not hear about transpiration. Thank you, Christine, James's wife
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Oct 3, 2020 8:37PM
jack patti go
A guess, but I picked the right one!
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Oct 3, 2020 12:29PM
Lynne Zeman
Plants "sweat" out as water per day that they taken in. I have often walked beneath trees on a clear day and felt a drop of moisture drip on me. Tree sweat!
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Oct 3, 2020 4:05AM
Chris Braid
Remembered that from school! 😁
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Sep 15, 2020 5:27AM
deborahpmercer
Odd, how transpiration as a noun is still generally only used scientifically, but transpire as a verb has passed into general/figurative vocabulary.
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Sep 15, 2020 3:21AM
Ilias Tsiabardas
Got it right
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Jan 7, 2020 10:20PM
Shweta Tripathi
Karin Johansson, Biology is the study of living beings..either plants or animals. Botany is science of plants and Zoology is science of animals.
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Mar 21, 2019 12:30PM
Karin Johansson
Michael L Reinhardt, actually it is a botanic question. Biology is about animals.
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Nov 21, 2018 10:30AM
Karin Johansson
Lydia Coutts, actually i think more non american know this. Because we don't believe so much in alternative facts as so many americans do.
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Nov 21, 2018 10:25AM
Ella Teuben
Those holes have a name... Stoma !
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Nov 20, 2018 12:46PM
Effren Hernandez
Great trivia question.
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Nov 19, 2018 2:16AM
Lydia Coutts
Michael L Reinhardt, what do you mean by “How is it more people got this wrong than right? This is something we were all taught in school. There is a reason other countries are ahead of us”? You know the internet — including this site — is global, right?
Americans can be so insular and myopic it’s pathetic.
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Nov 18, 2018 10:09PM
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