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Turgor Pressure and Roots!
Discussing our gummy worm lab
How did the mass of your
gummy worm change?
water solution
2g salt solution
8g salt solution
Why would this be?!?
Main Understandings
Explain osmosis; diffusion, active transport and root
pressure in root hairs
Explain transpiration in plants, cohesion and adhesion
as properties of water, and turgor pressure
What i think is cool about plants!
Remind me
Think-Pair-Share
Where are sugars
produced in our plant?
By what process?
Transported by what?
Where does water leave
our plant?
But where does water first enter our plants?!
The roots!
The roots have tiny little
extensions called root
hairs that help absorb
water and minerals!
Water moves into our roots
via osmosis
The minerals have to be
moved into the root cells
against their
Water then ...
Moves up towards the leaves through the xylem!
What was the movement of water out of the leaves called again?
Transpiration
Why else is water important? Turgor pressure!
Water is why are stems are either firm and straight up or
wilted!
Turgor pressure is when water moves into our plant cell
pushing the cell membrane against the cell wall.
As a result, the plant is firm or turgid.
When water moves out of our plant cell, the cell shrinks
Hypertonic solution
and wilts!
What kind of solution
would result in a turgid
or wilted plant?
Hypotonic solution
Turgor pressure also affects our guard cells
When the guard cells are
turgid, they open which
allows gas exchange
When the guard cells are
flaccid or wilted, they
close and reduce the
amount of water loss
and gas exchange.
Time lapsed turgor pressure
Transpiration summary
The process by which water leaves the
plant.
Water enters the plant by the root
and root hair cells
Then moves up the xylem
When it reaches the stomata it
turns to water vapour and leaves
the plant.
The water leaving the plant pulls
on the other water molecules by
COHESION
Gas Exchange in plants
In sunlight: Photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide flows into the plant through the stomata to
make sugars. Oxygen leaves through the stomata.
When it is dark: Plants use Cellular Respiration
They use the sugar they made and oxygen to produce
Woody Trees/ stems have another way!
Woody trees and stems also
have tissues with pores
called lenticels!
Allows for even more gas
exchange to occur.
Questions?
We will now be exploring factors
that affect the rate of
transpiration using an online
virtual lab!