A potometer, or transpirometer, is a device used to measure the rate of transpiration, or the rate of loss of water, from the leaves of a plant.d. One type of potometer design commonly used in the biology classroom is the bubble potometer, where the rate of movement of a bubble of air inside a column of water is used to measure the transpiration rate of a plant.
A sphinx is a mythical creature with the body of a lion, most often with a human head and sometimes with wings. The creature was an Egyptian invention and had a male head - human or animal; however, in ancient Greek culture the creature had the head of a woman.
A sphinx (Greek: ÏÏÎ¯Î³Î¾ [sfiÅks] , Boeotian: BÅOTIAN [ÏÎ¯Î¾] , PÊ°iks: Ø£Ø¨Ù Ø§ÙÙÙ Ù,) is a mythical creature with, as is minimum, the head of a human and the body of a lion. In Greek tradition, it has the head of a human, the haunches of a lion, and sometimes the wings of a bir bird