Plant Cell Parts
Key Ideas of the Plant cell
Vocabulary
Cell Processes and Energy 1
Cell processes and Energy 2
100

What Protects the plant cell and gives it shape

Cell wall

100

The basic unit of all living things

The cell

100

Organisms whose cells lack a nucleus and other organelles.

Prokaryotes

100

The process when light energy is used glucose from Carbon dioxide and water to produce oxygen

Photosynthesis

100

Gasses that help keep the earth warm

Greenhouse gases

200

What part of the plant cell absorbs the sun's energy and makes food for the cell

Chloroplasts

200

The part of the cell that makes the leaf green and absorbs sunlight

chloroplasts

200

Microscopes that can magnify up to a million times

Electron microscope

200

Process in which oxygen is used and carbon dioxide is given off

Cellular respiration

200

One of the important "greenhouse gases" that the human body and animals contribute to the earth by respiration

carbon dioxide

300

What part of the plant cell stores water, nutrients, wastes and other substances

Vacuole

300

What part of a plant cell that gives it rigidity and shape that a human cell does not have

Cell wall

300

Process by which particles move from high concentration to low concentration

Diffusion

300

Two processes that help maintain oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere

photosynthesis and cellular respiration

300

The sugar that is stored in plants during photosynthesis

glucose

400

The part of the plant cell that contains genetic material that directs the activities of the cell.

Nucleus

400

What is the function of ribosomes

Produce proteins

400

Type of cell that has a nucleus (prokaryote cell or eukaryotic cell)

eukaryotic cell

400

Plants store their energy in _________ and _____________

Sugars and carbohydrates

400

How do plants get water

water in the soil through the roots

500

It protects cell and allows certain substances to move into and out of the cell

Cell membrane

500

When a plant uses up its water, the part of the plant cell that shrinks

Vacuole 

500

Structure in a plant cell that produces the energy

Mitochondrion

500

Animals breath in oxygen and release

 ____________  ____________ while plants take in 

carbon dioxide and release _________________ 

Carbon dioxide, oxygen

500

The top layer of cells on a leaf 

Palisade cells