AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Evapotranspiration includes water evaporation into the atmosphere from the soil surface, evaporation from the capillary fringe of the groundwater table, and evaporation from water bodies on land. Evapotranspiration also includes transpiration, which is the water movement from the soil to the atmosphere via plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the atmosphere, the water forms clouds, and then it falls back to earth again as rain or snow. Precipitation collects again in earth’s waterways, or it goes into the soil, where it enables plants to grow. Then water evaporates from plants, oceans, lakes, and rivers again, completing the cycle.

Detailed explanation-3: -This includes water vapor produced by plants during transpiration, water from lakes, streams, puddles and soil moisture, direct evaporation of snow and even water vapor from the breath of animals. The second step of the water cycle is condensation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transpiration is the collective term for this water intake at the roots, water transport through plant tissues, and vapour emission by leaves. Additionally, soil near the plant evaporates water directly into the atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -About 97-99% of the water is lost through transpiration. Transpiration is defined as the physiological loss of water in the form of water vapor, mainly from the stomata in leaves, but also through evaporation from the surfaces of leaves, flowers, and stems.