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The document discusses how water moves through plants, including how root hair cells absorb water and minerals from soil due to their large surface area, how the absorbed water then moves through xylem tubes to the top of the plant, and how most water evaporates from leaf cells through stomata and diffuses into the air.

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Worksheet Science

The document discusses how water moves through plants, including how root hair cells absorb water and minerals from soil due to their large surface area, how the absorbed water then moves through xylem tubes to the top of the plant, and how most water evaporates from leaf cells through stomata and diffuses into the air.

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Worksheet 1.

3 Water movement
through plants
1 The diagram shows a root hair cell. nucleus

cytoplasm
Cell membrane

Vacuole
Cell wall

a On the diagram, use label lines to label each of these parts of the cell:
cell wall cell membrane cytoplasm nucleus vacuole

b Which part of the cell controls what enters and leaves the cell? cell membrane

c Which part of the cell contains chromosomes? nucleus

2 Root hair cells absorb water and mineral salts from the soil. Explain how the shape of a root hair
cell helps it to do this quickly.
Root hair cells are adapted to have large surface area .

3 Explain why root hair cells do not contain chloroplasts.

Because its function is to absorb water and mineral salts

4 After the root hair cells have absorbed water and mineral salts, these substances move to the
centre of the root. They go into tubes made of empty, dead cells joined end to end.
These tubes carry the water and mineral salts all the way up to the top of the plant.
What is the name of these tubes? xylem

5 When the water gets to the top of the plant, some of it is used for photosynthesis.
Write the word equation for photosynthesis.

Water + Carbon Dioxide --> Glucose + Oxygen

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Water movement through plants: Worksheet 1.3

6 Most of the water is not used for photosynthesis. It evaporates from the cells in the leaf, into the
air spaces inside the leaf.
Explain what is meant by the word evaporates.

Changes from liquid to gas

7 Water vapour diffuses out of the leaf into the air.


What is the name of the tiny holes through which the water vapour diffuses?
stomata

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