Lets Learn & Love

Leaves

PLANTS AND FOOD

PART 2
By Sir Darma SLJHS 2023
Leaves Secret
• During a growing season, a leaf will transpire many times
more water than its own weight. An acre of corn gives off about
3,000-4,000 gallons (11,400-15,100 liters) of water each day, and a large
oak tree can transpire 40,000 gallons (151,000 liters) per year.
• Leaves are the most important organs of most vascular plants.
• Leaves manufacture food for plants, which in turn ultimately nourish and
sustain all land animals.
• Leaves vary tremendously in shape and in size: from the tiny leaves (less
than 1 millimeter across) of the floating aquatic plant duckweed to the
giant leaves (25 m (82 ft) long and 3 m (9.8 ft) wide) of the raffia palm.
• In some plants, young leaves may be reddish, because they still
have little chlorophyll. Growing, the leaves turn green, as they
begin to produce more chlorophyll.
• In some plants, leaves can rotate to receive more sunlight, or,
conversely, hide from it to reduce evaporation of moisture.
• Most of the leaves grow on cypress trees, on an old tree there can
be up to 50 million. This is hundreds of times more than on some
other trees.
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HAPPENS WITH
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AFTER
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LETS LEARN LOVING LEAVES
•Learning external part
 Could you differentiate the upper & lower
surface of a leaf ?

WHICH ONE LOOKS GLOSSY, LIGHTER GREEN, ROUGH / SLIPPERY AND WHY ?
Leaf arrangement

Why they have special leaf

arrangement like this ?
LEAF IS THE BEST ORGAN FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Learning internal parts
LEAF CROSS SECTION
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12.A Tiny pore allows gases to enter and exit the
leaf more rapidly
13. Made up of one cell thick and closely packed
to protect the inner parts
14. A pair of bean-shape cell which contain
chloroplast and could change its shape
1. Best site of Photosynthesis
2. Control the opening of stomata
3. Lies between upper and lower
epidermis
4. Single layer of transparent cells
without chloroplast
5. Contains many stomata
6. Made up of irregular shaped cells with
less chloroplast
7. Made up of elongated cylindrical cells
that closely packed
8. Prevent excessive water loss from
transpiration
9. Contain vascular bundle
10. Transport water from root to leaf
11. Translocate sucrose and amino acids
from leaf
WHY WE SHOULD LOVE LEARNING
LEAVES ?