Active & Passive Transport
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Biology
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9th - 10th Grade
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Joanna Giddings
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This quiz comprehensively covers active and passive transport across cell membranes, a fundamental topic in cell biology appropriate for high school students in grades 9-10. The questions assess students' understanding of core concepts including diffusion, osmosis, equilibrium, concentration gradients, and membrane permeability. Students must demonstrate knowledge of passive transport mechanisms like simple diffusion and osmosis, as well as active transport processes including endocytosis, exocytosis, phagocytosis, and pinocytosis. The quiz requires students to distinguish between energy-requiring and non-energy-requiring transport, understand the relationship between concentration gradients and molecular movement, and apply knowledge of tonicity (hypotonic, hypertonic, and isotonic solutions) to predict cellular responses. Students need to grasp that passive transport moves substances down concentration gradients without energy input, while active transport moves substances against gradients using cellular energy in the form of ATP. Created by Joanna Giddings, a Biology teacher in the US who teaches grades 9-10. This assessment serves as an excellent tool for evaluating student mastery of cellular transport mechanisms and can be effectively used as a formative assessment, review activity, or homework assignment following instruction on cell membrane function. The quiz format allows teachers to quickly identify areas where students may need additional support, particularly in distinguishing between different types of transport and predicting cellular behavior in various solution conditions. Teachers can use this as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before diving deeper into related topics like cellular respiration or photosynthesis, or as a review tool before summative assessments. The questions align with NGSS standards HS-LS1-2 (developing and using models to illustrate how materials move through cell membranes) and support understanding of structure-function relationships that are central to life science curricula at the high school level.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration is
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If a red blood cell is put in distilled water, what will most likely happen to the cell?
Nothing will happen
It will shrivel.
It will burst and then shrivel up
It will swell and burst
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS1-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does semi-permeable mean?
Some molecules can move through the membrane
Nothing can move through the membrane
All molecules can pass through the membrane.
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS2-3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is equilibrium?
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS1-5
NGSS.HS-PS1-6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which diagram best shows the end result of diffusion?
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS1-5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In a "high concentration," molecules
are spread out
are tightly packed together
are uncrowded
are unevenly dispersed
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which type of transport requires an input of energy?
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