Name:
Date:
Period:
STRAWS & WATER & PLANTS
ACTIVITY:
❖ How many straws were you and your groupmates able to tape together and successfully
draw water through? _____________________________________________________
❖ How did the number of connected straws affect your group’s ability to pull water?
______________________________________________________________________
❖ How do plants acquire water? ______________________________________________
❖ To which part of the plant do you think this water goes? __________________________
❖ Cohesion occurs when two molecules that are alike interact with one another.
➢ Recall: is water polar or nonpolar? ______________
➢ Therefore, for cohesion to occur, the part of the plant that zips up the water must
also be ______________
NOTES PORTION:
❖ What is the process of transpiration? ________________________________________
❖ Which vascular tissue is responsible for transporting water? _____________________
➢ How can you remember this? _______________________________________
➢ In what direction does it transport water? _______________________________
❖ Which vascular tissue is responsible for transporting nutrients (glucose)? ____________
➢ How can you remember this? ________________________________________
➢ In what direction does it transport nutrients (glucose) ______________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Name:
Date:
Period:
STRAWS & WATER & PLANTS
ACTIVITY:
❖ How many straws were you and your groupmates able to tape together and successfully
draw water through? _____________________________________________________
❖ How did the number of connected straws affect your group’s ability to pull water?
______________________________________________________________________
❖ How do plants acquire water? ______________________________________________
❖ To which part of the plant do you think this water goes? __________________________
❖ Cohesion occurs when two molecules that are alike interact with one another.
➢ Recall: is water polar or nonpolar? ______________
➢ Therefore, for cohesion to occur, the part of the plant that zips up the water must
also be ______________
NOTES PORTION:
❖ What is the process of transpiration? ________________________________________
❖ Which vascular tissue is responsible for transporting water? _____________________
➢ How can you remember this? _______________________________________
➢ In what direction does it transport water? _______________________________
❖ Which vascular tissue is responsible for transporting nutrients (glucose)? ____________
➢ How can you remember this? ________________________________________
➢ In what direction does it transport nutrients (glucose) ______________________
____________________________________________________________________________