What nutrients does the soil provide fro plants?

Water, minerals, and some oxygen

What nutrients does air provide?

carbon in CO2

Photosynthesis makes what from carbon dioxide and water?

Sugars and oxygen

Plants consume what in cellular respiration to break down sugars for energy?

Oxygen

Water and solutes move through the (blank)

Root epidermis

Water and solutes can move up a plant through intracellular or extracellular routes. Describe each process.

Intracellular: moves via cell interiors through plasmodesmata

Extracellular: via cell walls: spaces between cells- OUTSIDE the cells.

What is the plasmodesmata?

A narrow thread of cytoplasm that passes through cell walls of adjacent plant cells and allows communication

This is used in intracellular transport of nutrients

All substances entering by root are (blanked) in (blank)

dissolved

Water