Transpiration Lab

Plant	Normal (mL)	With Fan (mL)	With Heater (mL)	With Lamp (mL)
English Ivy	1.8	5.1	3.2	2.1
Weeping fig	3.3	6.1	4.9	2.5
Devils Ivy	2.9	4.6	4.1	3.0
Arrowhead	3.6	7.5	6.6	4.0
Dieffenbachia	4.1	7.7	6.0	3.9
Geranium	1.2	4.7	5.8	2.4
Coleus	0.9	6.0	3.9	3.0
Zebra Plant	4.2	7.6	6.1	3.2
Rubber Plant	4.9	8.4	6.8	4.3

1) Transpiration is the process in which plants acquire nutrients from the air and lose their moisture.
2) The control of this lab would be the amount of transpiration that took place at 21°C after an hour.
3) We tested wind, light, and heat. All which can naturally take place in any environment in which the plants live. Not all plant transpiration was positively affected by the different environmental elements.
4) Wind typically had the largest effect on most plants transpiration levels. I believe it is because with wind more air reaches the plants leaves allowing it to obtain more nutrients.
5) The rubber plant had the highest amount of transpiration followed by the dieffenbachia. Plants have different levels of transpiration based upon their leaves and how much the nutrients the leaves are able to obtain.
6) I believe if the leaves were covered in jelly they would obtain nutrients faster because of the stickiness of the jelly, therefore the transpiration would be larger.
7) It is of large value for the plants survival helping them obtain the proper nutrients they need to survive.