Cell Membrane and Cell Transport Webquest Name:
Task 1: Inside the Cell Membrane Video
Watch the Inside the Cell Membrane video by the Amoeba Sisters on YouTube and
answer the following questions.
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1. What does the term “semi-permeable” mean?
2. Which cell organelle controls what goes in and out of cells?
3. True or False: All types of cells have a cell membrane.
4. Use the terms to label the diagram of the phospholipid.
• Terms: head, tail, polar, nonpolar, hydrophilic, hydrophobic
5. What is the role of cholesterol in a phospholipid bilayer?
6. What is the role of integral proteins?
7. What are two functions of peripheral proteins?
8. What are the roles of glycoproteins and glycolipids?
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9. Label the integral protein, peripheral protein, and glycoprotein on the diagram of the cell
membrane.
Task 2: Cell Membrane Interactive
Complete the Cell Membrane: Just Passing Through interactive activity on the PBS
Learning Media website.
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10. Describe the roles of the following cell membrane components.
a. Ion channel:
b. Protein pump:
c. Aquaporin:
11. Describe how each of the following molecules travel through the cell membrane.
• Oxygen:
• Carbon dioxide:
• Potassium:
• Sodium:
• Water (2 methods):
• Enzymes:
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Task 3: Cell Transport Video
Watch the Active, Passive, and Bulk Transport video by Ricochet Science on YouTube
and answer the following questions.
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12. Define passive transport.
13. How do molecules move across a cell membrane during diffusion?
14. How is facilitated diffusion different from regular diffusion?
15. What type of proteins assist with moving water through the cell membrane during osmosis?
16. What does active transport require?
17. What do pumps force molecules to do?
18. What is bulk transport used for?
19. Summarize the following processes of endocytosis.
a. phagocytosis:
b. pinocytosis:
c. receptor-mediated endocytosis:
20. What is one similarity and one difference between endocytosis and exocytosis?
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Task 4: Cell Membrane & Cell Transport Game
Complete the Cell Defense: The Plasma Membrane game on the BioMan Bio website.
Click Start a New Game. Follow the directions and answer the questions below to
complete the challenges.
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Build a Membrane Challenge
21. The cell membrane is also called a plasma membrane. What would happen to cells without a cell
membrane?
22. What molecules cannot easily pass through the cell membrane?
23. What is the difference between a polar and nonpolar molecule?
24. Insert channel proteins into the cell membrane and observe. Why were substances transported up
until there were equal amounts on both side of the membrane?
25. Diffusion is a process where substances move from a higher to lower concentration. What type of
diffusion happens through a channel protein?
26. What does a cell have to do to move a substance from an area of low concentration to an area
with high concentration?
27. What is the name of the process that uses carrier proteins and ATP to transport materials against
the concentration gradient?
28. Why do cells have different membrane carbohydrates?
Diffusion Challenge
29. When has a cell reached dynamic equilibrium?
30. What is the passive movement of particles from a higher to lower concentration called?
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31. If the concentration of oxygen in a body tissue is 5% and the concentration of oxygen in the blood
surrounding the cell is 10%, which direction will the oxygen diffuse?
Energy and Transport Challenge
32. Why can’t sugar pass through the cell membrane?
33. How many ATP did you use your first trial?
34. What is a strategy one can use to meet equilibrium and conserve ATP?
Osmosis Challenge
35. What is osmosis?
36. What are solutes?
37. Compare the amount of solute to identify the correct term.
a. Hypertonic:
b. Hypotonic:
c. Isotonic:
38. What is the name of the protein that allows water to pass through the membrane?
39. Is osmosis active or passive transport?
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Task 5: Conclusion
A. Label the following on the lipid bilayer diagram: integral proteins, peripheral protein, glycoprotein,
cholesterol, phospholipid, channel protein, carrier protein.
B. Complete the Venn diagram to compare active and passive cell transport.
PASSIVE TRANSPORT ACTIVE TRANSPORT
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