What Affects the Rates of Transpiration?

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  • Created by: SamDavies
  • Created on: 27-11-13 22:36
Light Intensity
The brighter the light, the greater the transpiration rate. Stomata begin to close as it gets darker. Photosynthesis cannot happen in the dark, so they don't need to be open to let CO2 in. When the stomata is closed, very little water can escape
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Temperature
The warmer it is, the faster transpiration happens. When it is warm, the water particles get more energy to evaporate and diffuse out of the stomata
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Wind speed
The higher the wind speed around the leaf, the greater the transpiration rate. If the wind speed around the leaf is low, water vapour just surrounds the leaf and doesn't move away. This means that there is a high concentration of water particles
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outside the leaf as well as inside it so diffusion doesn't happen as quickly. If it is windy, the water vapour is swept away, maintaining the low concentration of water in the air around the leaf. Diffusion then happens quickly moving from an area of
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high concentration to an area of low concentration
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Humidity
The drier the air, the faster transpiration happens. If the air is humid, it has a lot of water in it already so there's not much difference between the outside of the leaf and inside it. Diffusion happens fastest if there is really
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high concentration in one place and really low concentration in another
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