Cells
The ___________ is a layer around the outside of the cell. It wraps around the cell similarly to the way our skin wraps around us. It determines what goes in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Plant cells have an additional outer covering around the outside of the cell. This layer is called the ___________. It provides the plant cell with strength and extra support.
What is the cell wall?
The process by which an organism maintains a state of balance and stability among its internal systems, despite changes in its external environment is __________.
What is homeostasis?
When seen through a microscope, plant cells are shaped like ____________.
What is bricks or squares or rectangles?
____________ are oval, membrane-covered organelles that supply energy for the cell; little power plants.
What are the mitochondria?
The process where organisms pass on their genetic material to the next generation.
What is reproduction?
When seen though a microscope, animal cells are shaped like _______________.
What circular or round, or blobs?
A ________, or one-celled, organism is made of a single cell that carries out its life processes.
What is unicellular?
Plant and animal cells contain several basic structures with specific functions called ___________.
What are organelles?
The process where organisms add new cells and change into their adult form.
What is growth and development?
Microscopes allow us to see things that are too _________ to see with the naked eye.
What is small?
Organisms made of many specialized cells that carry out the characterisitics of life are _________________.
What is multicellular?
Unlike animal cells, plant use this process to make their food.
What is photosynthesis?
Eliminating waste is a way organisms maintain their internal balance. This characterisitic of life is called ____________.
In a multicellular organism, like a tree or a human, all the cells are the exact same. True or False.
What is false?
Frogs and amoebas are living organisms that carry out all the characteristics of life. They are different in that frogs are _______________ and amoebas are ____________________.
What is frogs are multicellular and amoebas are unicellular?
______________ are three organelles that plant and animal cells have in common.
What are cell membrane, nucleus, and mitochondria?
What are the two organelles that are found in plant cells but not animal cells?
What are the cell wall and chloroplast?
All organisms need to have a way to obtain and use ___________ to survive.
What is energy?
The organelle that is the control center in a plant or animal cell that is easiliy seen through a microscope is __________.
What is the nucleus?