Question

the absorption of water by plants is called transpiration?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

No.

Answer 3

Take a look at this picture:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/graphics/evapotranspiration.gif

Transpiration is where plants release water, through their leaves.

Answer 4

Passive absorption takes place when water is drawn into the roots by negative pressure in the conducting tissues created by transpiration.

Answer 5

Under the conditions during which there is little transpiration, the roots of many plants absorb water by spending energy that is called active absorption.

Answer 6

That's an entirely different process. It's not called transpiration.

Answer 7

Here, let me pull up the article that you copied & pasted from:
http://www.agriinfo.in/?page=topic&superid=1&topicid=10

"Absorption of water is...related to transpiration."

In other words, transpiration and the absorption of water are two different processes, only related to one another. They are not the same process.

Take a look at this page:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/trsp.rxml

"Transpiration is the evaporation of water into the atomosphere..."

Answer 8

I'm sorry, where are my manners? Do you have anything else to say?

Answer 9

seeing as you never actually gave an answer to the question, osmotic potential which could be Active Absorption, passive absorption, active osmotic absorption and or passive osmotic absorption. but based on the education level delivered by the public school system i tend to doubt they get the information right in the first place.

Answer 10

And neither do you.