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 GIANT sphinx head has been discovered buried in the sands of California and it comes straight out of one of the silent movie era's most extravagant productions. The perfectly intact 300-pound sphinx was unearthed by archaeologists excavating the 95-year-old set of Cecil B. DeMilleâs movie The Ten Commandments.