Cells and Tissues

Cell Organelles

1

This organelle is known as the "control center" of the cell.

Nucleus 

2

Question:  This organelle is responsible for making energy for the cell, like a power plant.

Answer: What is Mitochondria?

3

Question: This organelle acts like a packaging and shipping center, modifying and sending proteins to different parts of the cell.

Answer: What are Golgi Bodies?

4

Question: This organelle is unique to plant cells and is responsible for capturing sunlight to make food. 

Answer: What is Chloroplasts?

Organelle Functions

1

Question: What is the main function of ribosomes in a cell?

Answer: What is to make proteins

2

Question: What is the job of lysosomes, which are remembered with the hint "Lysol"?

Answer: What is to break down waste and old cell parts?

3

Question: What process occurs in chloroplasts, allowing plant cells to make their own food using sunlight?    

 Answer: What is Photosynthesis?

4

Question: If a cell needed to quickly transport newly made proteins to another location within the cell, which organelle would be primarily involved in this transport?

 Answer: What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?

Levels of Organization

1

Question: What is the simplest level of organization in the human body?

Answer: What are Cells?    

2

Question: What is formed when similar cells work together to perform a specific job?

Answer: What is Tissue?

3

Question: The respiratory system is made up of organs like the lungs and trachea. What level of organization is the respiratory system?

Answer: What is an Organ System?    

4

Question: Name the four levels of organization in the human body, in order from simplest to most complex.

 Answer: What are Cells, Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems?

Memory Clues

1

Question: "I'm a brick wall" is a memory clue for which part of a plant cell?

 Answer: What is the Cell Wall?    

2

Question: "Members only can come and go" is a memory clue for which cell part that controls what enters and leaves?

 Answer: What is the Cell Membrane?    

3

Question: "I'm a transportER" is a memory clue for which organelle that acts like a highway system in the cell?    

Answer: What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?

4

Question: "I'll store anything, like vacuum bags" is a memory clue for which organelle that stores water, food, and waste?

 Answer: What is the Vacuole?