Cell Organelles
Characteristics of Life
Cell Theory
Complex and Simple Cells
Plants and Animals
100
This organelle is the control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
100

A parent measuring a child's height monthly exhibits what characteristic of life?

What is growth and development?

100
This man discovered the cell by observing cork under a microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
100
This type of cell HAS a nucleus. Both plant and animal cells are this type of cell.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
100
This type of cell is a square shape because it has a cell wall.
What is a plant cell?
200
This organelle gets rid of the waste in the cell.
What is the lysosome?
200
A mama duck just hatched 6 new baby ducklings. Which characteristic of life does this represent?
What is reproduction?
200
All living things are composed of _____________.
What are cells?
200
This type of cell has NO nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
200
This type of cell has no cell wall, only a membrane.
What is an animal cell?
300
These organelles make the proteins.
What are ribosomes?
300
When you look at a leaf and a sample of human skin, we see that they are both made of tiny "building blocks". What characteristic of life does this represent?
What is "All living things are composed of cells?"
300
Cells are the basic and smallest unit of _________.
What is life?
300
This type of prokaryotic cell is everywhere, in your yogurt, on the door handle, and even in your intestines!
What is eubacteria?
300
This type of cell can make its own food through photosynthesis and by use of the organelle the chloroplast.
What is a plant cell?
400

This organelle is like the protein super-highway providing pathways for proteins to travel throughout the cell.

What is the endoplasmic reticulum (E.R)?

400

You step outside during the spring when the sun is blindingly bright compared to the indoors.  Your eyes squint to shield some of the brightness of the sun.

What is the response to stimuli?

400
All cells come from _____________.
What is preexisting cells?
400
This type of prokaryotic cell lives in extreme environments like hot pools around volcanoes and caves of total darkness.
What is archaebacteria?
400
These are the two organelles a plant cell has but animal cell does not.
What is a chloroplast and a cell wall?
500
This organelle provides the energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
500
All things must maintain a stable environment. For humans, that means keeping our temperature at 98 degrees.
What is homeostasis?
500

This scientist developed the simple compound microscope to view microscopic single cell organisms called bacteria and prokaryotes.

Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?

500
This cell has more membrane bound organelles and is clearly the most complex type of cell.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
500
This is the pigment that gives a plant cell its color, found in the chloroplast.
What is chlorophyll?
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