Thursday 16 February 2023

Scenarios

 1.  An athlete forgot their water bottle when going to soccer practice.  After a while, the athlete notices that their pee is bright yellow, they are feeling light headed and dizzy.  What can they do to fix their situation and explain how their situation can be fixed by paying attention to OSMOSIS, DIFFUSION, ELECTROLYTES,  

2.  A 2 year old child is constantly getting respiratory infections, bronchitis, and lots of phlegm. They have symptoms of shortness of breath.  They say" my skin tastes REALLY SALTY!!!" What might be troubling this child.  Hint: it has something to do with carrier proteins on a cell membrane and the central dogma.  

3.   An adult wears contact lenses and decides to use distilled water instead of saline solution for cleaning their lenses.  They find that this causes great discomfort.  What might be causing their discomfort. Explain using the terms hypertonic, hypotonic, isotonic. 


Please answer these questions with a partner.  If you DRAW A PICTURE, then it communicates your answer even more effectively!  Answer in one  or two pages. Hand in before the period ends