Active transport: pumps and vesicles
Grade 9 Science Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.
Read this first
Use the table
Lab card (model data) and drawing, not to scale. The card gives counts for pump P in one cell.
Minutes ATP used Sodium ions moved out Potassium ions moved in 5 8 24 16 10 15 45 30 15 21 63 42 Drawing: letter P points to a protein that reaches all the way across the bilayer, with an ATP label beside it. The card is read about only: a teacher counted the ions, and no one handled anything.
Bo reads the card for pump P. If the pattern continues, how many ATP has P used when 90 sodium ions have moved out, and how many potassium ions have moved in?
- 30 ATP and 45 potassium ions
- 30 ATP and 60 potassium ions
- 45 ATP and 135 potassium ions
- 90 ATP and 60 potassium ions
The test was read about only: a teacher ran it, and no one handled the cell. Luz reads a teacher’s lab card about a cell treated so it cannot make ATP. Which conclusion does the card support?
- Crossings through proteins stopped without ATP, because proteins use ATP
- Pumping stopped without ATP, so the pumps must have run out of potassium ions
- Oxygen crossing stopped without ATP, but pumping continued
- Pumping stopped without ATP, but crossings that need no ATP continued
The test was read about only: a teacher ran it, and no one handled the plant. Noah reads the card about a root hair cell. Why did the normal cell take in potassium ions even though it already held far more than the soil water?
- Pumps moved potassium ions from where there are more to where there are fewer
- Channel proteins let potassium ions flow in, powered by ATP
- Pumps moved potassium ions in using the concentration difference
- It used ATP to pump potassium ions toward the side with more
Use this
Lab card (model data) and drawing, not to scale. ATP was blocked at minute 0 in a cell. Table with 3 rows. Columns: Minutes after ATP was blocked | Sodium ions outside | Sodium ions inside | Glucose molecules moved in. Rows: 0 | 60 | 10 | 20; 20 | 40 | 30 | 8; 40 | 35 | 35 | 0. Drawing: letter G points to a carrier protein across the bilayer that carries sodium ions and glucose molecules into the cell together; no ATP label is beside G. The glucose count is for 1 minute. The test was read about only: a teacher ran it, and no one handled the cell.
Kira sees glucose uptake through G fall, even though G has no ATP label. Which reason fits the card?
- G uses ATP directly, so it stopped when ATP was blocked
- G needs no energy source, so the drop is a counting error
- Glucose moved down its gradient, which flattened as more glucose built up
- G runs on the sodium gradient, and the gradient faded without the pump
The test was read about only: a teacher ran it, and no one handled the cell. Ari sees the vesicle rows fall to 0 but the oxygen row stay at 18. Which reason explains the odd pattern?
- Vesicles form on their own, so the 0 rows must be errors
- Oxygen crossing needs ATP too, so the 18 must be an error
- The particles came in by exocytosis, which stopped without ATP
- Vesicle uptake takes energy, but oxygen crosses down its gradient with none
Use the table
Lab card (model data) and drawing, not to scale. Pump P in one cell runs 10 cycles with enough ATP; it sits in a bilayer.
Time Sodium ions outside Potassium ions inside start 40 30 after 10 cycles 70 50 Drawing: letter P points to a sodium-potassium pump with an ATP label beside it. The card is read about only: a teacher counted the ions, and no one handled anything.
Jun sees sodium ions outside rise by 30 but potassium ions inside rise by only 20. Which reason fits the card?
- Each cycle moves 2 sodium ions out for 3 potassium ions in
- Each cycle moves 3 sodium ions out for 3 potassium ions in
- Both ions moved down their gradients, so the counts differ
- Each cycle moves 3 sodium ions out for 2 potassium ions in
Use this
Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). A bilayer: a top row of round heads, tails meeting in the middle, and a bottom row of round heads, with watery fluid outside the cell above and watery fluid inside the cell below. Letter P points to a sodium-potassium pump with an ATP label beside it. Arrows show 3 sodium ions moving out and 2 potassium ions moving in, and 1 ATP being used in the cycle.
Esme’s notes say the sodium-potassium pump moves 3 sodium ions out and 2 potassium ions in, and needs no ATP. Which correction fixes the notes?
- It does move 3 sodium ions out and 2 potassium ions in, but each cycle uses ATP
- It moves 3 sodium ions out and 2 potassium ions in, and needs ATP on steep gradients
- It moves 2 sodium ions out and 3 potassium ions in, and each cycle uses ATP
- It moves 3 sodium ions in and 2 potassium ions out, and each cycle uses ATP
Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). Pia’s notes say exocytosis is how a cell takes a large particle in. Which correction fixes the notes?
- Exocytosis releases vesicle contents outside, and it needs no energy
- Exocytosis takes in small particles, and endocytosis takes in large ones
- Exocytosis takes particles in, but it uses a vesicle to do it
- Exocytosis releases vesicle contents outside, and endocytosis takes particles in
Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). A gland cell's Golgi apparatus packaged an enzyme into a secretory vesicle. Milo must pick the best claim, with its reason, about the 12 enzyme molecules in vesicle V of a gland cell.
Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). A bilayer: a top row of round heads, tails meeting in the middle, and a bottom row of round heads, with watery fluid outside the cell above and watery fluid inside the cell below. A gland cell’s Golgi apparatus packaged an enzyme into a secretory vesicle. Letter V points to the vesicle, which touches the inside of the bottom row and holds 12 enzyme molecules. Outside the cell: 0 enzyme molecules. Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). A bilayer: a top row of round heads, tails meeting in the middle, and a bottom row of round heads, with watery fluid outside the cell above and watery fluid inside the cell below. A gland cell’s Golgi apparatus packaged an enzyme into a secretory vesicle. Letter V points to the vesicle, which touches the inside of the bottom row and holds 12 enzyme molecules. Outside the cell: 0 enzyme molecules. watery fluid outside the cell 0 enzyme molecules watery fluid inside the cell V 12 enzyme molecules - They will leave by phagocytosis, because the vesicle engulfs a large particle and carries it out
- They will leave by exocytosis, because the vesicle fuses with the membrane and releases them
- They will leave by exocytosis, because vesicles drift out with no energy needed
- They will leave by endocytosis, because the vesicle fuses with the membrane and releases them
Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). Zee must pick the best claim, with its reason, about proteins P and G in the drawing.
Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). A bilayer: a top row of round heads, tails meeting in the middle, and a bottom row of round heads, with watery fluid outside the cell above and watery fluid inside the cell below. Letter P points to a pump with an ATP label beside it that moves sodium ions out of the cell. Letter G points to a protein with no ATP label that carries sodium ions and glucose molecules into the cell together. Outside the cell: 60 sodium ions and 8 glucose molecules. Inside the cell: 10 sodium ions and 20 glucose molecules. Membrane drawing (model, not to scale). A bilayer: a top row of round heads, tails meeting in the middle, and a bottom row of round heads, with watery fluid outside the cell above and watery fluid inside the cell below. Letter P points to a pump with an ATP label beside it that moves sodium ions out of the cell. Letter G points to a protein with no ATP label that carries sodium ions and glucose molecules into the cell together. Outside the cell: 60 sodium ions and 8 glucose molecules. Inside the cell: 10 sodium ions and 20 glucose molecules. 60 sodium ions 8 glucose molecules watery fluid outside the cell P ATP G watery fluid inside the cell 10 sodium ions 20 glucose molecules - P and G are both secondary active transport, because neither needs energy
- P and G are both primary active transport, because both use ATP directly
- P is primary active transport and G is secondary, because G runs on the gradient P builds
- G is primary active transport and P is secondary, because G uses the ATP that P splits