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Diffusion and Osmosis Worksheet: The Answers
Diffusion and Osmosis Worksheet: The Answers
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The Answers
1a. These are pictures of molecules frozen at two different times. Draw arrows to
show the direction each particle might
travel due to diffusion in diagrams A and B.
1a. These are pictures of molecules frozen at two different times. Draw arrows to
show the direction each particle might
travel due to diffusion in diagrams A and B.
Randomly. They continue in a straight line until they hit each other or an object and
ricochet in a new direction.
1a. These are pictures of molecules frozen at two different times. Draw arrows to
show the direction each particle might
travel due to diffusion in diagrams A and B.
1c. Diagram A shows the same number of particles as in Diagram B except most
particles start out on one side of the box.
Explain why after a while, Diagram A resembles Diagram B.
.
Molecules move randomly until they reach equillibrium.
2. Give an everyday example of diffusion in air and in water.
LC HC
5b.
What happens to the number of water particles on the left hand side?
They will increase.
What happens to the concentration of the solution on the right hand side?
a) Explain why water moves from the soil into the root hair cell.
Water equilibrates through the semi permeable membrane moving from a high
concentration of H2O outside to a low concentration of H2O inside the cell.
b) Suggest why root hair cells are long and thin and not short and stubby?
More membrane surface area so more water can be taken up by the plant.
8. Label the following diagrams of Red Blood Cells and Plant Cells
as being examples of cells contained in Isotonic, Hypertonic and
Hypotonic solutions.
They can’t keep water inside of their cell which they need for
their metabolism.