The maximum amount of water retained by the soil is said to be:
Field capacity
Guttation
Active absorption
Passive absorption
98% of the total water uptake of a plant is through which process?
Imbibition
Osmosis
Osmotic mechanisms
The movement of molecules from a region of their kinetic or free energy to a region of their lower kinetic or free energy is
Turgor pressure
Permeability
Diffusion
___________ allows water to move by osmosis along a water potential gradient from soil water to xylem across the vacuoles of the cell of the root system?
Symplast plath way
Vacuolar pathway
What is the percentage of water in the soil at which plants remain wilted unless more water is added to the soil?
Capillary water
Water potential
Wilting coefficient
Soil water potential
The small amount of water that is chemically bound with soil particle is said to be
Combined water
Gravitational Water
Run off Water
The maximum water potential is:
1
10
2.0
0
When a plant cell is placed in a pure water it will:
Swell and brust
Became rigid because of turgor pressure
Lose water and wilt
None of these
The difference in diffusion pressure of pure water and water in a specific solution is said to be___________?
Root Pressure
Imbibitions
Diffusion Pressure Deficit (DPD)
The amount of water available to plants is called
Water table
Chesard
Hygroscopic water.