Need help with water potential

Describe and explain the effects of placing animal and plant cells in solutions of differing solute concentration. For this question, although it asks about solute concentration, the mark scheme mentions nothing of it other than water potential and solute potential. Can anyone elaborate, I am getting confused because I thought that high solute concentration means high solute potential ... Thanks

This is a broad question so I'm assuming they're expecting you to make a lot of points. The main part of the question is that they want you to describe AND explain the effects of both plant and animal cells, if they come into contact with differing solute concentrations.

First of all, we'll start with animal cells. The question is expecting you to describe what happens if the animal cell comes into contact with a low solute concentration medium, then explain why it has these effects. You'd then to the same describing the nature of an animal cell in a high solute concentration, explaining what happens and why this happens (due to water potential/solute potential). You'd then have to describe the same nature with plant cells. Since the question states "differing solute concentrations", this means it wants to know how the cells react specifically relating to the water/solute potentials.

That's just explaining the question and how they expect you to answer it. Quote me if you need help with your answer

Hi, thanks for replying. This is what I have mentioned in my answer but it is wrong.
-Incipient plasmolysis and plasmolysis take place when the external solution is hypotonic to the plants cells, causing water to move out of the cell.
-Animal cells will burst when placed in a solution with low solution concentration. (Would this be hypo or hypertonic? )
- Animal cells will shrink and become crenated in a solution that is high solute concentration. The bit about the solute concentration is wrong but I don't understand why. Thanks