do you expect leaves with a large surface area to lose more or less water?

Question

if leaves lose water through their stomata, would you expect to find more or fewer stomata on large leaves? what other advantges are ther for a leaf to have a large surface area?

Answer 1

Well, think about it - what are leaves for? what do they do? Why would it be useful for a plant to have a leaf with a large surface area? Then think about this - what happens to a leaf if the plant runs low on water? (Hint - why do deciduous trees drop their leaves in the winter, and what is 'winter burn' in pines?)

Answer 2

Advantage - larger sunlight gathering area.
The "leaves" on a coniferous tree and a cactus spine have just one stomata right at the tip, I seem to remember. Could be wrong - more than half a century ago!

Answer 3

There are pores on the guy leaf's floor, pronounced as STOMATA, and those pores are open for the period of the day whilst there is solar mild. the water will flow out of the leaves and evaporate in the path of the stomata by utilising a technique popular as "transpiration", that's brought about by utilising water ability differenceds between the leaves and the atomosphere.