Question

You are sailing on Lake Superior from Copper Harbor, Michigan, to Isle Royale National Park. A sudden storm causes your sailboat to spring a leak. You immediately grab a bucket and begin bailing water out of the boat. Briefly explain how your predicament could be used as an analogy to help explain both active and passive transport.

Answer 1

Active transport is movement of lower to higher energy and passive transport is movement for higher to lower energy.

Step-by-step explanation:

• During the trip to the Michigan lake, the sudden onset of the storm leads to the filing of water inside the boat and it starts to sink. Represents one situation where the person immediately grabs a bucket in order to save his life.

• The second is crossing the lake in order to find a safe place. Here active transport is actively taking the water out of the boat as soon as possible. Passive transport involves escaping from one place to another such as a shore.