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Differentiate between Transpiration and Evaporation
Solution
| Transpiration | Evaporation | ||
| 1 | It occurs in plants | 1 | It occurs from any free surface and involves living and non-living surfaces. |
| 2 | It is a physiological process. | 2 | It is a physical process. |
| 3 | It occurs mainly through the stomatal pores on plant leaves. | 3 | It is occurs through any free surface |
| 4 | It is controlled by environmental factors as well as physiological factors of plants such as root-shoot ratio and number of stomata. | 4 | It is entirely driven by environmental factors |
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