D2.3 Water Potential
10 review questions with answers for D2.3 Water Potential, marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
The term for the concentration of solutes in a solution?
- OsmolarityRight answer
- Hypertonic
- Hypotonic
- Plasmolysis
All 10 questions and answers
The term for the concentration of solutes in a solution?
Answer: Osmolarity
The tendency of water to move from one area to another?
Answer: Water potential
The shrinkage of cell contents away from the cell wall in a hypertonic solution?
Answer: Plasmolysis
The internal pressure of cell contents against the cell wall?
Answer: Turgor pressure
A plant cell that has lost its turgor pressure?
Answer: Flaccid
A plant cell with maximum turgor pressure?
Answer: Turgid
The net movement of water from a high water potential to a low water potential through a partially permeable membrane?
Answer: Osmosis
A solution that has a higher water potential (fewer solutes) than the cell?
Answer: Hypotonic
A solution that has a lower water potential (more solutes) than the cell?
Answer: Hypertonic
A solution where the water potential is exactly equal to that of the cell?
Answer: Isotonic
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.