Cell Membrane, Transport and Tonicity Quiz

Movement of particles from high to low concentration. 

• Passive Transport
• Active Transport

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is it called when molecules move across the cell membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration through a carrier protein?

• Diffusion
• Osmosis
• Active Transport
• Facilitated Diffusion

Osmosis is the movement of _____ across a membrane.

• food
• energy
• oxygen
• water

The cell below is in a _________ solution.

• Hypotonic
• Hypertonic
• Isotonic

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The cell below is in a _____________ solution.

• Hypertonic
• Hypotonic
• Isotonic

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

A cell in an isotonic solution will

• swell
• shrink
• stay the same size
• impossible to tell

When a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution water

• moves from the inside of the cell to the solution
• moves from the solution to the inside of the cell
• moves equally in and out of the cell
• none of these

When the concentration of particles inside of a cell is the same as the concentration of particles outside of the cell. 

• active transport
• concentration
• diffusion
• equilibrium

Something is ___________ ____________
when some molecules can cross the membrane while others cannot. 

• Selectively (or Semi) Permeable 
• Totally Transparent
• Liquid Licorice 
• Heavily Patrolled 

Which part of the phospholipid is hydrophobic?

• The head

• The tails

• Only one tail

• The heart