Pathway Taken by Water (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Combined Science): Revision Note

Pathway taken by water

• Water is taken up from the soil into root hair cells

• Water then moves across the root cortex and into the xylem vessels by osmosis

Pathway of water into and across a root

• Water is then transported in the xylem to the leaves where it enters the leaf mesophyll cells

• So the pathway is:

root hair cell → root cortex cells → xylem → leaf mesophyll cells