Cell Structures
This structure gives plant cells their rigid, rectangular shape.
What is the cell wall?
Which organelle breaks down food molecules to release energy for the cell?
What are the mitochondria?
Which structures are found in plant cells but NOT in animal cells?
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
What is the primary function of the cell membrane?
What is to control what substances enter and leave the cell?
What is the primary function of the cytoplasm in a cell?
What is a jelly-like substance that fills the cell and supports organelles?
The organelle that controls most cell activities and contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The process by which chloroplasts use sunlight to make glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
The green organelles that contain chlorophyll and carry out photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
What is the role of chloroplasts in plant cells?
Chloroplasts captures sunlight to help the cell make food.
What is the main function of the vacuole in plant cells?
What is to store water, nutrients, and waste materials?
What organelle releases energy from food so the cell can carry out its activities.
What is Mitochondria?
The sugar produced by photosynthesis that mitochondria later use for energy.
What is glucose?
What are the 3 differences that plant cells have that animal cells do not have?
What is a large vacuole, cell wall, and chloroplast?
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a Cell?
What cell has one large vacuole?
What is a plant cell?
The thin layer that surrounds the cell and controls what goes in and out (not rigid).
What is the cell membrane?
The organelle that is known as the power house of the cell?
What is the mitochondria?
A structure that provides extra support and protection and is outside the cell membrane in plant cells
What is the cell wall?
Why is the large vacuole in a plant cell useful?
A large vacuole helps a plant cell stay firm.
How does the cytoplasm help organelles work together?
What is: the cytoplasm surrounds and supports organelles so they can function?
The jelly-like substance that fills the cell and holds organelles in place.
What is the cytoplasm?
How do chloroplasts and mitochondria work together in plant cells?
What is: chloroplasts produce glucose through photosynthesis, and mitochondria break it down to release energy.
Name two features plants have that help them make food and stay upright.
What are chloroplasts and the cell wall?
The membrane is described as "selectively permeable." Explain what that means in one sentence.
What is: it allows some substances to pass through while keeping others out?
What cell has several small vacuoles?
What is an animal cell?