Microscopes
Chemical Compounds
Organelles
Discovering Cells
You Oughta Know
100

What are the names of the two kinds of microscopes that we covered?

Compound Microscope/Electron Microscope

100

Any substance that cannot be broken down into smaller substances.

What is an element?

100

This organelle is the powerhouse of the cell! More importantly, it converts energy in food to energy the cell can use.

What is a mitochondria?

100

Basic units of structure and function in living things.

What are cells?

100

What are the two kinds of cells that we learned about?

Plant and Animal cell.

200

How do the two kinds of microscopes that we covered work?

Compound uses light focused through lenses to produce magnification. Electron uses beams of electrons.

200

Two or more elements combined chemically.

What is a compound?

200

This substance fills the region between the cell membrane and the nucleus.

What is cytoplasm?

200

The relationship between cells and living things?

What is cell theory?

200

What two parts distinguish a plant cell from an animal cell?

The Cell Wall and the Chloroplasts.

300

The condition of things that appear larger than they are.

What is magnification?
300

The four organic compounds that living things need.

What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?

300

This organelle packages and distributes substances?

Almost like a warehouse.

What is the golgi apparatus?

300

What are the three premises of cell theory?

1. All living things are composed of cells

2. Cells are the basic units of structure and function

3. All cells are produced from other cells

300

Daily Double!

1. Made of many cells.

2. A group of cells working together.


1. Multicellular

2. Tissue

400

The degree to which two separate structures that are close together can be distinguished.

What is Resolution?

400

These three elements are found among all living things.

What are Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen?

400

This organelle produces proteins.

What is a ribosome?

400

Name at least three functions of organisms and cells.

Obtain food, obtain oxygen, obtain water, get rid of wastes.

400

ALL CLASS!

How many cells are in a human body?

(*HINT - between 1 - 50 trillion, take a guess, within 5 trillion is a win)

About 37.2 trillion cells in a human body.

500

Two significant scientists and researchers that helped develop microscopes and cell theory.

Hooke and Leeuwenhoek

500

Daily Double!

1. This Inorganic compound is necessary for life.

2. This is the shape of a DNA molecule.

1. What is water?

2. What is a double helix?

500

How many different organelles are in a plant cell? (include cytoplasm and lysosomes)

11

500

Do stuffed animals have the same kind of cells as humans? Why or why not?

No, because stuffed animals are not alive and do not reproduce. They are not made of cells like humans.

500

Point to the DNA in the classroom. You have 5 seconds!

Near the skeleton...

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