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To investigate how surface area affects the rate of transpiration of leaves.
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To investigate how surface area affects the rate of transpiration of leaves. Skill P: To show that transpiration did occur on a leaf we did a preliminary experiment. We took two plants, and set them in a bell jar, one of the plants was cut beneath its leaves, so that we could show that if it did transpire it would be from the leaves and not the stem. The experiment was set up like this: Water appeared on the side of the bell jar, this shows that transpiration does occur through the leaves of a plant. For the method we are going to use to see if surface area affects the size of a leaf we are going make sure that we keep the leaves in the same conditions at all time, because light, wind or temperature might affect it. So we are keeping the leaves away from the window and we also will...
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