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Name ________________________________ Date ___________________ Hour ______
Web Quest – Cells
Type in www.biology4kids.com. Click on CELLS in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Click on NEXT STOP after each section.
Cells are the Starting Point
1. What is a main purpose of a cell? ________________________________
2. What is a cell wall? _____________________________________
What is it made of? ____________________
What types of cells have a cell wall? _____________
3. What does a chloroplast do? ______________________________
4. What does a vacuole contain? __________________
5. What doesn’t a prokaryote have? ______________________
Cell Membranes
6. What is a cell membrane compared to? ______________________________
7. What two substances make up the cell membrane? ____________________________
and _____________________________
8. What is the function of proteins of the membrane? ____________________________
9. What is the shape of phospholipids? _________________________________
10. What is meant by “hydrophilic”? _____________________________
What part of phospholipids is hydrophilic? _____________________
11. What is meant by “hydrophobic”? _____________________________
What part of phospholipids is hydrophobic? ____________________
12. What are the two layers of cells of the membrane called? _______________________
Cell Nucleus – Commanding the Cell
13. Is the nucleus always in the center of a cell? ______
14. What is another name for the cytoplasm? _______________
15. What substance is in the nucleus? ______________________
What is this made of?_______ , ________ , __________________
16. Where is the nucleolus? _____________________________
What is it made of? ______ , ________________ , but not much __________
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Mitochondria – Turning on the Powerhouse
17. What are the mitochondria known as? ______________________
18. What do the mitochondria provide for the cell? _______________
19. What is different about mitochondria, compared to other organelles?
20. What are the cristae? _____________________________________
21. What is the matrix? _____________________________________
22. The matrix is filled with _____________ and _________________.
23. What is another name for enzymes? _______________
24. The mitochondria are the only place in the cell where __________ combines with
_________________.
25. What is another function of the mitochondria? _______________________________
Chloroplasts – Show Me the Green
26. What do chloroplasts do? ________________________
27. What two types of cells contain chloroplasts? _______________ and _____________
28. What cell contains no chloroplasts? _______________
29. What is created in the stroma? _________________
30. What is a stack of thylakoids called? _______________
31. What do thylakoids have on their surface? ______________
32. The chlorophyll uses ___________________ to make ________________.
33. What happens during photosynthesis? ______________________________________
34. What two substances are the reactants? ___________________ and _____________
35. What two substances are created? __________________ and _________________
Cytoplasm – Filling Fluid
36. What is cytoplasm? __________________________________________________
37. What is cytoplasm also called? ___________________
38. What is neoplasm? ___________________________________________________
39. What two things does the neoplasm hold? _________________ and ______________
40. The cytosol also uses ______________ to break down _______________ molecules
that can then be used by the ____________ in the __________.
41. The enzymes can break down ______________ into ______________.
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Ribosomes – Protein Construction Teams
42. What do ribosomes make? _________________
43. What are proteins used as? ____________________ or as
______________
44. Ribosomes connect one ___________________ to another to make _____________.
45. What 2 places are ribosomes found in? _________________ and ________
Endoplasmic Reticulum – Wrapping It Up
46. The ER functions as a ________________________________.
47. The ER works closely with the _______________________, ___________________,
________ , __________, and ____________.
48. The two types of ER are ________________ and ________________.
49. Rough ER has ____________________ attached to it.
50. Smooth ER acts as a __________________________________.
51. Smooth ER creates and stores ___________________.
52. Smooth ER also stores ____________.
Golgi Apparatus – Packaging Things Up
53. The Golgi complex _____________ simple molecules and _____________ them to make
________________ that are more complex.
54. It then ________________ them in ________________.
55. The Golgi either ____________ them for later use or ____________ them out of the
cell.
56. The Golgi also builds _________________.
57. The Golgi works very close with the ______________.
Cell Wall – What’s It For?
58. What are cell walls made of? ____________________
59. What type of cell has a cell wall? __________________
60. Name two other functions of the cell wall.
a) __________________________
b) __________________________
61. How are cell walls different in small plants? _________________________________
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Vacuoles – Storage Bins to the Cells
62. What is the purpose of vacuoles? _____________
63. Are they found in both animal and plant cells? ________
64. In which type of cell, are they larger? _____________
65. Name three types of substances vacuoles store.
a. __________________
b. ________________
c. ________________
66. When a plant cell has stopped growing, how many vacuoles does it contain? _____
67. What is happening to the vacuoles of a drooping plant? ________________________
68. The size of a cell will ____________ or _______________ depending on how much
_____________ is present.
69. The size of the cell depends on the material in _______________.
70. The vacuoles _______ and _________ water depending on how much __________ is
available to the plant.
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