Consider a tree that is 50 m tall and is transpiring roughly 90 l...

Question

Consider a tree that is 50 m tall and is transpiring roughly 90 liters of water each day. Approximately how many calories will the tree use to transpire this quantity of water?

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So blank is the loss of water in the form of water vapor from aerial parts of the plan. Let's go over answer choices so that we can solve this problem. Beginning by answer choice. The blood pressure. Well, root pressure is a type of hydrostatic pressure. It relies on water. However, this does not really explain how water is lost as a vapor. So we're going to cancel it out. Then we have inhibition. This in division is the absorption of water, not the loss of water through water vapor. So we're going to cancel it out as well. Then we have excavation. This actually refers to the loss of water, However, it refers to the loss of water as a liquid, which is not what we're looking for. We're looking for the loss of water as water vapor. So we're going to cancel this out as well. And this all leaves us with transpiration. And this transpiration refers to the loss of water from the plant as a gas and this usually happens in the area parts of the plant. That is going to be the final answer to our question. And I really hope this video helped too.

Consider a tree that is 50 m tall and is transpiring roughly 90 liters of water each day. Approximately how many calories will the tree use to transpire this quantity of water?

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