Science Chapter 2 Quiz - Cells

The basic structures of all living things.

This completely surrounds the cell, it lets fuel in, and waste and manufactured goods out.

The thin filmlike outer layer that holds the cell together and separates it from its environment   It works like a gatekeeper allowing certain substances in and out.

A jellylike material made mostly of water. It fills the cell, and other parts of the cell float in it.

They power the cell by burning fuel they get from the food we eat

• Captures the suns energy to make food.
• Plant only

Produces protein for cells

Stores water and waste inside the cell

The control center that directs all the activities of the cell.

Genetic material that carries information.

Protects cells by destroying harmful substances and worn-out cell parts

The structure inside the cell that stores proteins and other chemicals until they are needed by the cell

Takes chemicals that were packaged by the Golgi bodies and delivers them to where they are needed.  They also send waste to where it needs to go.

Goupings of different tissues combined together into one structure, i.e. heart, lungs, kidney etc

A group of organs that work together to perform a certain task

A group of the same kind of cells doing the same job working together.

• Ribosome
• Lysosome
• Golgi Bodies

• Cell Wall
• Cloroplasts

• Cells
• Cytoplasm
• Vacule
• Nucleus
• Chromosome
• Endoplasmic Reticulem
• Cell Membrane
• Mitochondrion
• Nucleolus