Basics
This type of transport requires no energy and moves molecules from high to low concentration.
What is passive transport?
This type of passive transport involves small, nonpolar molecules passing directly through the cell membrane.
What is simple diffusion?
When a cell is in this type of solution, water moves out, causing the cell to shrink.
What is a hypertonic solution?
This U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
This large, domed stadium in New Orleans is home to the NFL's Saints and has hosted numerous Super Bowls.
What is the Superdome?
This is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This protein-assisted process allows molecules like glucose to move into the cell without using energy.
What is facilitated diffusion?
Daily Double: This term describes a cell that has lost so much water it shrinks away from its cell wall.
What is plasmolysis?
In this sitcom, six friends navigate life and relationships in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
What is Friends?
This is the longest river in the United States, flowing over 2,300 miles from Montana to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This type of transport requires energy in the form of ATP to move substances against their concentration gradient.
What is active transport?
This term describes the state when the concentration of solutes is equal on both sides of a membrane.
what is equilibrium?
This type of solution has an equal concentration of solutes as inside the cell.
What is isotonic?
This amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This major U.S. political scandal in the 1970s led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
The process by which cells engulf large particles by wrapping the cell membrane around them is called this.
What is endocytosis?
In a hypotonic solution, this happens to an animal cell due to water intake.
What is it swells or may burst?
In an isotonic environment, cells experience this effect with water movement.
What is no net movement (or dynamic equilibrium)?
This author wrote The Great Gatsby, which reflects the themes of the American Dream during the Jazz Age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This British author created a book series, which has become one of the best-selling book series of all time.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
This is the name for the process in which vesicles fuse with the cell membrane to release their contents outside the cell.
What is exocytosis?
Daily Double: In plant cells, this is the term for the pressure exerted by water inside the cell pushing against the cell wall.
What is turgor pressure?
This is the term for the difference in concentration of a substance across a space or membrane.
What is a concentration gradient?
This streaming platform debuted in 2007 and became a leading service for movies, series, and original programming.
What is Netflix?
This park, established in 1872 and known for its geysers and hot springs, was the first national park in the United States.
What is Yellowstone Park?