Organelles
This gel-like fluid fills up the cell and keeps all the other organelles floating in place.
What is cyptoplasm?
Rough outer edge of the plant cell
What is the cell wall?
This is the name of the spiral galaxy that contains our solar system
What is the milky way?
This is the third planet from the sun and the only known planet to support life.
What is Earth?
Often called the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle breaks down food to release usable chemical energy.
What is the mitochronion?
This is the specific green pigment found inside chloroplasts that absorbs sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This dwarf planet was considered the ninth planet from the Sun until it was reclassified in 2006.
What is Pluto?
Taking about 365 days to complete, this is the term for Earth's yearly trip around the Sun.
What is a revolution (or orbit)?
Found inside the nucleus, this dark spot is responsible for making ribosomes.
What is the nucleolus?
These green structures take in sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
An massive, invisible area in space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it.
What is a black hole?
This is the thinnest, outermost layer of the Earth that we walk on every day.
What is the crust?
This structure protects the nucleus and controls what goes in and out of it.
What is the nuclear membrane?
While animal cells have tiny ones, plant cells feature one massive "central" version of this organelle used to store water.
What are vacuoles?
This giant gas planet is famous for its beautiful, bright rings made of ice, dust, and rock.
What is Saturn?
The process where liquid water turns into water vapor and rises into the air.
What is evaporation?
These tightly packed strands of DNA inside the nucleus hold the instructions for traits.
What is chromatin (or chromosomes)?
What are two things in a plant cell that aren't (or aren't common) in an animal cell?
Cell wall, chloroplasts, lysosomes.
This "Red Planet" is the fourth planet from the Sun and home to Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.
What is Mars?
These large, moving pieces of the Earth's crust can cause earthquakes when they slide past each other.
What are tectonic plates?