Passive Transport Vocabulary Practice

Why should you never drink salt water?

• The water will leave your cells because of the isotonic solution surrounding them.

• The water will enter your cells because they are in an hypotonic solution.

• The water will leave your cells because of the hypertonic solution surrounding them.

• Nothing will happen, that's a myth.

What is the organelle that surrounds the outside of every cell?

• Cell Membrane

• Nucleus

• Cytoplasm

• Lysosome

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Osmosis is the movement of _____ across a membrane.

• food
• energy
• oxygen
• water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What does “high concentration area” mean?

• Spread out
• Tightly packed together
• Uncrowded
• Spacious

When both inside and outside of a cell have the same amount of water it is said that the cell has reached a state of ___________.

• osmosis
• equilibrium
• diffusion
• hypertonic

The cell is 99% water. The surrounding is salty. Where will the water go?

• Into the cell
• Out of the cell
• Equally in & out 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is diffusion?

• when molecules move 
• when molecules move from a high concentration to a low.
• no movement 
• molecules move everywhere

The cell below is in a _____________ solution.

• Hypertonic
• Hypotonic
• Isotonic

The cell below is in a _________ solution.

• Hypotonic
• Hypertonic
• Isotonic

A substance that can be dissolved by a solvent to create a solution.

• solvent

• solute

• solution

• mixture