Cell processes vocab

The tendency of a substance to move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.

The movement of water through a membrane from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.

The process of using energy to move materials through a membrane.

A chemical process by which cells release energy from sugar when no oxygen is present.

The process by which green plants and other producers use simple compounds and energy from light to make sugar, an energy-rich compound.

A process in which cells use oxygen to release energy stored in sugars

Controls what comes in and out of the cell

Organelles that release energy by using oxygen to breakdown sugars

An organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll, a chemical that uses the energy from sunlight to make sugar.

The variable that is manipulated or changed