What is Transpiration and Evaporation?: What is Transpiration and Evaporation?
Evaporation- conversion of water into water vapor. This is the first part of the water cycle. Transpiration- evaporation from leaves of water extracted from soil by roots and transported throughout the plant. This is the last part of the water cycle. What it looks like…: What it looks like… Evaporation: Evaporation The process called “evaporation” is water loss from exposed surfaces, such as water bodies, soil surfaces, and intercepted water on plant and litter surfaces. (ex.) If there is a puddle of water on a sunny day, a period of time later, the water will be evaporated into the sky and will be gone. Evaporation continued…: Evaporation continued… If the surrounding air is dryer (lower water vapor pressure) than the surface that contains water, the water will evaporate and will continue to do so until the water is gone. Evaporation continued…: Evaporation continued… In other words, evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or the ocean and turns it into vapor or s
