Transpiration and Plant Water Processes

Questions about plant transpiration, stomatal function, and related water exchange mechanisms in plants

13 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following options is not a mode of excretion in plants?

  1. Transpiration
  2. Translocation
  3. Secretion of resins and gums
  4. Through leaves
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In terrestrial habitats, temperature, and rain fall conditions are influenced by ____________.

  1. water transpiration
  2. transpiration
  3. thermoperiodism
  4. translocation
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Apart from stomata, which is the another way through which oxygen can enter the plants?

  1. Through leaf tips
  2. Through a hole in the stem
  3. Through lenticel
  4. Thriough scars on the leaves
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Main function of lenticel is _____________.

  1. transpiration
  2. guttation
  3. gaseous exchange
  4. translation
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In majority of plants, stomata opens during _________.

  1. daytime
  2. night time
  3. twilight
  4. dawn
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Rate of transpiration is dependent upon _________.

  1. tugor pressure in guard cells
  2. temperature
  3. D.P.D.
  4. vapour pressure deficit
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Stomata is open and close due to ____________.

  1. circadian rhythm
  2. pressure of gases ouside the leaves
  3. pressure of gases inside the leaves
  4. turgor pressure of guard cells
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Transpiration is high in _______.

  1. rainy season
  2. winter
  3. summers
  4. dark
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Transpiration from the plants would be most rapid when _________.

  1. there is lot of humidity in the atmosphere
  2. the air is still
  3. there is excess of fog
  4. environmental conditions are dry
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Transpiration is regulated by movement of ___________.

  1. guard cells
  2. subsidiary cells
  3. epidermal cells
  4. mesophyll cells
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Transpiration occurs when the outer atmosphere ____________.

  1. is wet
  2. has more moisture content than the substomatal cavities
  3. has less moisture than substomatal cavities
  4. has the same moisture content as in the substomatal cavities
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Transpiration rate is dependent upon _________.

  1. stomatal frequency
  2. position of stomata
  3. state of stomata
  4. all of these
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When stomata open only at night, they are called ___________.

  1. photoactive
  2. scotoactive
  3. nyctinastic
  4. helioactive