Cell Organelles
This organelle controls the cell’s activities and contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This rigid outer layer gives plant cells shape and support.
What is the cell wall?
Animal cells have this outer boundary that controls what enters and leaves.
What is the cell membrane?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Both plant and animal cells have this structure that contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell."
What is the mitochondria?
This organelle uses sunlight to make food through photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
Unlike plant cells, animal cells do NOT have this structure.
What is a cell wall?
This jelly-like substance fills the inside of the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
Both types of cells contain this gel-like substance.
What is cytoplasm?
This organelle makes proteins for the cell.
What are ribosomes?
This large structure stores water and helps keep the plant upright.
What is the central vacuole?
Animal cells usually have many small ______ instead of one large central one.
What are vacuoles?
This organelle transports materials within the cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
Plant cells are usually this shape, while animal cells are more round or irregular.
What is rectangular (box-like)?
This organelle sorts, packages, and transports proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This pigment inside chloroplasts absorbs light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
This organelle is more common in animal cells and helps break down waste.
What is the lysosome?
The metabolic process in which cells convert nutrients into energy (adenosine triphosphate- ATP)
What is cellular respiration?
Only plant cells perform this process to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This organelle contains digestive enzymes that break down waste.
What is the lysosome?
This process occurs in chloroplasts to produce glucose/sugar (plants' food).
What is photosynthesis?
These structures help animal cells with cell division and are not found in plant cells.
What are centrioles?
Name two structures found in plant cells but not animal cells.
What is the cell wall, chloroplast, or large central vacuole?