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The energy of motion, derived from the environment around the particles. |
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The net movement of a solute from a solution with a high solute concentration to a solution of low solute concentration. |
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With an increase in particle mass, the rate of diffusion ___ |
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As the temperature increases, the rate of diffusion ___ |
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When the concentration of the solute increases, the rate of diffusion __ |
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the diffusion of water through a semi-permeable barrier |
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solution that has a greater concentration of solute particles (greater osmotic pressure)than the adjacent solution |
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Solution that generally has a lesser concentration of solute particles (lesser osmotic pressure) than the adjacent solution |
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Solutions that have the same solute concentration (osmotic pressure). |
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When you describe solutions as hypertonic, hypotonic, or isotonic, you are describing their ___. |
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Large vacuole in the center of the plant cell, whose solution is normally hypertonic to the rest of the cytoplasm and extracellular fluids. |
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Pressure caused by the hypertonicity of the tonoplast, maintains a water flow into the cell (tonoplast). |
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When the solution outside the cell is hypertonic, and the cytoplasm becomes dehydrated, the chloroplasts becomes centered in the middle of the cell, the tonoplast shrinks and this is called |
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Certain types of solutes are allowed to move across a membrane and others aren't in a process called ___ |
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