| A | B |
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| Absorption | Process by which usable materials are taken into an organism |
| Circulation | The movement of materials within a cell or between parts of an organism |
| Transport | Processes by which substances pass into or out of cells and circulate within the organism |
| Permeability | The allowance of materials into or out of an organism |
| Semipermeable | The ability of a membrane to select what goes in and what goes out of a cell |
| Concentration Gradient | The difference in concentration between a region of great concentration and a region of lesser concentration |
| Osmosis | The diffusion of water-goes from a high to a low |
| Osmotic Pressure | The pressure resulting from osmosis |
| Turgor | The effect of osmotic pressure in plant cells |
| Passive transport | processes by which materials move across a cell membrane without using energy |
| Active Transport | Movement of materials across a cell membrane that use energy |
| Phagocytosis | Cell eats by extending a pseudopod and forming a food vacuole |
| Transpiration | The loss of water through the stomates of leaves |
| Transpirational pull | The force that produces the upward pull of the xylem |
| Xylem | Plant tissue that transports water from the roots up to the leaves |
| Phloem | Plant tissue that transports nutrients |
