Water Flow Through Plants

Flowering plants have seperate transport systems: Xylem and Phloem.

• Phloem tubes transport food
• Made of coloums of living cells with small holes in the ends to allow food to flow thorugh.
• They transport food substance to the rest of the plant. (mainly dissolved sugars thats made in the leaves and transported to growing regions.)
• The transport goes in both directions.

• Xylem tubes take water up.
• They are nade of dead cells joined end to end with no end walls between them and a holed down the middle.
• They carry water and mineral ions from the roots to the stem and leaves in the transpiration system. 

• Transpiration is the movement of water from the roots through the xylem and out of the leaves.
• Transpiration is the loss of water from the plant
• Transpiration is caused by the evaporation and diffusion of water from inside the leaves
• This created a slights shortage of water in the leaf....