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close this bookBetter Farming Series 28 - Water: Where Water Comes from (FAO, 1981, 31 p.)
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Transpiration

22. Water vapour is also given off by plants.

23. Plants use the water in the ground to live and grow, and as they live they breathe and give off water vapour from stems and leaves.


Plants use water

24. This is called transpiration.

25. Like vapour given off by evaporation, the water vapour from plants rises into the air to form new clouds.