Cells

Cell Organelles

100

This organelle is the control center of the cell.

What is the nucleus?

200

This organelle gets rid of the waste in the cell.

What is the lysosome?

300

These organelles make the proteins.

What are ribosomes?

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)

500

This organelle provides the energy for the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

Characteristics of Life

100

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

What is growth and development?

200

A mama duck just hatched 6 new baby ducklings. Which characteristic of life does this represent?

What is reproduction?

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?"

400

All living things have a way to respond to changes that happen in their environment. These "changes" are called what?

What is stimulus?

500

All things must maintain a stable environment. For humans, that means keeping our temperature at 98 degrees.

What is homeostasis?

Cell Theory

100

True or false: cells appear spontaneously (meaning they appear randomly from nothing).

False

200

All living things are composed of _____________.

What are cells?

300

Cells are the basic and smallest unit of _________.

What is structure and function?

400

All cells come from _____________.

What is preexisting cells?

500

This man discovered the cell by observing cork under a microscope.

Who is Robert Hooke?

More Organelles

100

This organelle gives plant cells their rectangular shape.

What is a cell wall?

200

This organelle provides temporary storage of materials inside the cell.

What is a vacuole?

300

This structure is responsible for controlling what goes in and out of the cell.

What is the cell membrane?

400

This organelle converts sunlight into glucose (food).

What is a chloroplast?

500

This organelle sorts and packs things like proteins inside the cell.

What is golgi body?

Cell Types

100

This type of cell HAS a nucleus. Both plant and animal cells are this type of cell.

What is a eukaryotic cell?

200

This type of cell has no cell wall, only a membrane.

What is an animal cell?

300

This type of cell can make its own food through photosynthesis.

What is a plant cell?

400

This cell has more membrane bound organelles and is clearly the most complex type of cell.

What is a eukaryotic cell?

500

This type of cell has NO nucleus.

What is a prokaryotic cell?