1. Leaving Certificate Biology Movement of Substances 2 EQ iQuiz
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2. The movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to low concentration is called …
Fission
Transpiration
Osmosis
Diffusion

3. Water can be described as a …
Good solvent
Good solution
Good solute
Mixture

4. Cell walls are … Selectively permeable Fully permeable Non-permeable
Waterproof

5. The function of the contractile vacuole in Amoeba is …
Movement
Osmoregulation
Protein synthesis
Reproduction

6. If you put a piece of Visking tubing half-filled with sucrose solution into a beaker of distilled water for 10 minutes would it …
Stay the same
Burst
Become emptier
Become fuller

7. Which of the following is NOT an example of diffusion?
CO2 entering a leaf
O2 entering a leaf
Minerals entering
roots of plants
Digested food
entering blood

8. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of …
High conc.
to high conc.
High conc.
to low conc.
Low conc.
to high conc.
Low conc.
to low conc.

9. If you put an animal cell into a less concentrated solution it will …
Burst
Stay the same
Shrivel up
Plasmolyse

10. Which of the following uses osmoregulation to stay alive?
Bacteria
Amoeba
Rhizopus
Yeast

11. Plasmolysis is caused by …
Loss of minerals
from a plant cell
Water entering
a plant cell
Loss of water
from a plant cell
Minerals entering
a plant cell

12. Turgor/Turgor pressure is the pressure of what against the plant cell wall?
Cytoplasm and
nucleus
Nucleus and
mitochondria
Vacuole and
ribosomes
Cytoplasm and
vacuole

13. Which of the following is a food preservation technique based on osmosis?
Refrigeration
Canning
Soak food in salty
solution
Pasteurisation

14. Amoeba belongs to which Kingdom?
Bacteria
Protista
Fungi
Animal

15. An Amoeba can be described as …
An autotroph
A heterotroph
A parasite
Photosynthetic

16. What does Amoeba use to move?
Flagella
Hairs
Legs
Pseudopods

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