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    This document contains a worksheet with questions about transporting materials across cell membranes through diffusion and osmosis. It asks about permeability, selectively permeable membranes, diffusion, concentration gradients, osmosis, tonicity, and the effects of hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic solutions on animal and plant cells. The questions cover key terminology and concepts in membrane transport.

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    This document contains a worksheet with questions about transporting materials across cell membranes through diffusion and osmosis. It asks about permeability, selectively permeable membranes, diffusion, concentration gradients, osmosis, tonicity, and the effects of hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic solutions on animal and plant cells. The questions cover key terminology and concepts in membrane transport.

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    Name-------------Date-------------Period----------

    POINTS WILL BE TAKEN OFF IF THE ANSWERS


    ARE NOT WRITTEN IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

    Transporting Materials across the Membrane


    Permeability
    1. Is the cell wall of plant cells freely permeable? What does
    permeable mean?

    2. The cell membrane is found in both --------------- and


    ----------------- cells.
    3. What is the job of the cell membrane?

    4. Why is the cell membrane often said to be semipermeable?

    5. Why is it the term selectively permeable or differentially


    permeable more appropriate in describing the cell membrane?

    6. List the three different ways by which substances can enter or


    exit cells from the surrounding medium.
    a. -------------------------- ( ------------------ and ---------------------)

    b. -------------------------------------c. ------------------------------ and ------------------------------

    7. What is diffusion?

    8. Give the definition for diffusion.

    9. Illustrate figure 3.4 ( using two different color pencils or ink)


    the process of diffusion .

    10.
    The movement of molecules by diffusion alone is a
    --------------- process.

    11.

    What affects the rate of diffusion?

    12.

    Define concentration gradient.

    13.
    Diffusion in a ---------------- medium is faster than in a
    ------------------ medium

    14.

    How is diffusion sped up in the cell?

    15. Why can lipid soluble molecules like alcohol diffuse directly
    across the cell membrane?

    15.
    What other two gases can diffuse directly across the cell
    membrane?

    16.
    How does oxygen gas leave the air sacs of the lungs to
    blood capillaries?

    17.
    What is the name given for the diffusion of water across a
    differentially permeable membrane?

    18.

    Define osmosis.

    19.

    Figure 3.7

    Explain what happens to the movement of water in animal cells


    when placed in the three environments listed below.
    a. Isotonic

    b. Hypotonic

    c. Hypertonic

    20.
    What is the term given when water enters an animal cell
    and burst due to increase osmotic pressure?

    21.
    What term is given when an animal cell is placed in a
    hypertonic environment and the cell loses water and shrivels?

    22.
    Figure 3.7: Explains what happens when a plant cell is
    placed the environments listed below.
    a. Isotonic

    b. Hypotonic

    c. Hypertonic

    23.
    What is the name given to the pressure that develops
    when a plant is placed in a hypotonic solution?

    24.
    What is the name given to a plant cell that shrivels when
    placed in a hypertonic solution?

    25.
    What term is given to a solution that causes a cell to
    neither gain nor lose water?

    26.

    What does iso mean? What does tonicity mean?

    27.
    What is the concentration of sodium chloride that is
    isotonic to red blood cells?

    28.
    What type of environment or solution would cell take in
    water?
    29.
    What salt solution would be hypotonic to red blood cells?

    30.

    What does lysis mean? What does hemolysis mean?

    31.
    What happens when a plant cell is placed into a hypotonic
    solution?

    32.

    Why it is the plant cell does not burst?

    33.

    What does the prefix hyper mean?

    34.

    What happens to a cell if place in a hypertonic solution?

    35.

    What salt solution would be hypertonic to red blood cells?

    36.
    What term is given to animal cells in the shrink due to
    being placed in a hypertonic solution?

    37.
    What is the term given when a plant cell shrinks when
    placed in a hypertonic solution?

    38.

    What happens during plasmolysis?

    39.
    How is water reabsorbed in humans? Give me the
    complete version of the story.

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