What is the term used for the process of water evaporation through plant leaves?
Transpiration
Transpiration is correct.
Transpiration is the loss of water in the form of water vapour from the aerial parts of a plant, mainly through the stomata on the leaves. It creates a suction force (transpiration pull) that helps lift water and minerals from the roots through the xylem, and it also cools the leaf surface.
Respiration is the breakdown of food to release energy, photosynthesis is the making of glucose from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight, and fermentation is anaerobic breakdown of sugars by microbes such as yeast. None of these describes water evaporating through leaves.
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