B1.1.4 - Movement of Substances

Question 1

Where does water go when it enters a cell?

Answer 1

It enters the vacuole and makes the cell rigid.

Question 2

What is the equation for respiration?

Answer 2

Glucose + Oxygen –> Energy + CO₂ + H₂O

Question 3

What do we call the chemical reaction that happens in our cells (in mitochondria) that releases energy?

Answer 3

Respiration

Question 4

Glucose is a type of…

Answer 4

Sugar

Question 5

How are glucose and oxygen transported around the body?

Answer 5

By the blood

Question 6

Which nutrient found in food gives us energy?

Answer 6

Glucose

Question 7

How does water move into root hair cells?

Answer 7

By diffusion

Question 8

What will happen to a plant if they do not get enough water?

Answer 8

They wilt (go floppy)

Question 9

How does carbon dioxide and glucose enter cells?

Answer 9

By the process of diffusion

Question 10

What is the useful product of respiration?

Answer 10

Energy

Question 11

What are the waste products of respiration?

Answer 11

Carbon Dioxide

Water

Question 12

What is diffusion?

Answer 12

The net movement** of substances from a **high concentration** to a **low concentration** until they are at **equilibrium.

Question 13

What does equilibrium mean?

Answer 13

evenly spread out

Question 14

Where does respiration happen?

Answer 14

Inside the mitochondria