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Explore how particles move through concentration gradients via diffusion and osmosis in cells. Learn about passive transport, endocytosis, and cellular homeostasis. Includes interactive demonstrations.
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DIFFUSION • Food, water, and other substances are made of different kinds of particles, such as molecules and ions. • Particles are always moving, like dancers on a crowded dance floor.
You can tell how particles will tend to move if you know how crowded they are. • Concentration refers to how crowded particles are. A juice concentrate is a very strong form of juice. It has many more juice particles than regular juice does.
When you mix the concentrate with water, the juice particles spread out in the water. • In a concentrate, the juice particles are very crowded. • They tend to move away from places where they are concentrated • Thus, the particles become less concentrated.
Particles will continue to move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration until they reach equilibrium. • This process is called diffusion.
Watch the demonstration with food coloring in water, then answer the following: • Explain why the ink spreads out in the water. Use the words concentration and diffusion in your answer. • The dye is very concentrated when it enters the water. The dye diffuses through the water to lower concentrated areas until equilibrium is reached.
Diffusion Through a Cell Membrane • Cells also need food and water to live • Substances move into and out of the cell through its cell membrane • A cell membrane is like the cell’s skin.
Just as ink diffuses in water, some substances can diffuse into and out of a cell through its cell membrane. • Particles of some substances can diffuse through proteins in the cell membrane.(facilitated diffusion)
Diffusion is an important process that allows a cell to get substances it needs. • Complete the Vocabulary Review on your note sheet.
Reviewing Vocabulary • Some substances move into and out of cells by diffusion. • The word concentration refers to how crowded particles are. • Some particles diffuse into and out of cells through the cell membrane • Particles tend to move toward places where they have a low concentration. • Particles tend to move away from places where they have a high concentration • Give one example of diffusion in your home. cooking, sugar in tea, ‘cut the cheese’
OSMOSIS • When water DIFFUSES through a CELL MEMBRANE, the process is called OSMOSIS. • Most of your body is made of water. • This water can move into and out of your cells • Water can enter and leave your cells by diffusion.
In the picture, water is diffusing through a cell membrane. Water particles Outside of Cell Cell Membrane Inside of Cell • Why is the water moving INTO the cell in the picture?
Because water has a lower concentration inside the cell than outside the cell. • Water moves into the cell by OSMOSIS.
What happens to the raisin after sitting in the water for a while? • It becomes larger • Why does this happen?
Water molecules have a lower concentration inside the raisin. Outside the raisin, water molecules are crowded. Water molecules diffuse into the raisin by osmosis.
PASSIVE TRANSPORT • Cells do not use energy to move particles by osmosis or diffusion • Particles move freely into and out of cells. This kind of movement is called PASSIVE TRANSPORT • Complete the Vocabulary Review. Diffusion, Osmosis and facillitated diffusion are all types of passive transport
Vocabulary Review • One example of osmosis is water diffusing into a raisin. • Cells do not work to move molecules by passive transport. • Two forms of passive transport are osmosis and diffusion. • In diffusion and osmosis, particles move by themselves. • Water molecules tend to move to places where they have a low concentration. • Give one way that osmosis is similar to diffusion. Both move from high to low concentration.
Active vs. Passive Transport • Passive Transport – does not require energy. Particles move from high to low concentration. • Active Transport – does require energy because molecules are moving from low to high concentration
Endocytosis • Some things the cells needs are too large to pass through the cell membrane. • The cell membrane can surround a large particle located outside the cell. • The membrane forms a sac around the particle. • Then the sac opens inside the cell.
Large particle leave the cell in sacs too.Inside a cell, a sac forms around large waste particles. • The sac moves to the membrane and then opens outside the cell. • Waste particle move OUTSIDE the cell. • This process of moving large particles OUT of the membrane is calledEXOCYTOSIS.
Cells Maintain Balance • The cell controls its food and water content by moving ions, molecules, and larger particles into or out of itself. This is how the cell maintains homeostasis. • Homeostasis Simulation http://trc.ucdavis.edu/biosci10v/bis10v/media/ch17/hot_guy.html • Complete the Vocabulary Review
Vocabulary Review • Cells use energy to move molecules by active transport. • Diffusion and osmosis are two kinds of passive transport. • Some molecules are too large to pass through the cell membrane. • Cells take in large molecules by endocytosis. • Cells must maintain a balance, called homeostasis.