Cell Transport

A balance that an organism maintains by regulating what goes into and out of the cell.

• Hypertonic

• Homeostasis

• Metabolism

• Hypotonic

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The type of cellular transport that requires no energy.

• Active Transport

• Exocytosis

• Passive Transport

• Endocytosis

The release of large particles, often waste materials from the inside of the cell to the outside of the cell.

• Osmosis
• Exocytosis
• Endocytosis
• Diffusion

What type of transport involves the movement of water from high to low concentrations?

• Diffusion
• Active Transport
• Facilitated Diffusion
• Osmosis

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What type of transport uses transport (channel) proteins to help molecules move from higher to lower concentrations?

• Active Transport

• Diffusion

• Facilitated Diffusion

• Osmosis

What type of solution has more solute (NaCl) and less water than a cell that it contains? If a cell is put in this type of solution, water will leave the cell.

• Isotonic

• Hypertonic

• Hypotonic

• None of the Above

What happens to a plant cell that is placed into a hypotonic solution?

• It shrinks.

• The plant will wilt.

• It swells.

• Salt will enter the cell.

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What might happen to a freshwater plant that is placed into saltwater?

• Cells will swell.

• The cell might lose water and shrink.

• Exocytosis will occur.

• There will be no change.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

A cell with a 5% salt solution is placed into a beaker with a 10% salt solution. There is more water inside of the cell. This solution is considered to be _____ to the cell.

• Isotonic

• Hypertonic

• Hypotonic

• None of the Above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

A cell with a 5% salt solution is placed into a beaker with a 10% salt solution. There is more water inside of the cell than outside. What will happen to the cell?

• It will shrink because water will leave the cell.

• It will swell because water will enter the cell.

• No change

• The salt will leave the cell.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3