What is the term for the process by which plants lose water vapor to the atmosphere?
Correct Answer: Transpiration
- Step 1: Understand that plants take in water from the soil through their roots.
- Step 2: Know that some of this water is used by the plant for growth and other functions.
- Step 3: Realize that not all the water stays in the plant; some of it needs to leave.
- Step 4: Learn that plants lose water in the form of vapor, which is like a gas.
- Step 5: Identify that this loss of water vapor happens mainly through tiny openings on the leaves called stomata.
- Step 6: Conclude that the process of losing water vapor from plants is called transpiration.
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