Download The Great Cell Scavenger Hunt You will visit the links to answer the

The Great Cell Scavenger Hunt
You will visit the links to answer the questions below. Make sure to open a new word document
and email your answers to me. After you finish, you can CELLebrate!
Visit the site below and answer questions #1-2.
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_main.html
1. What are cells?
2. What are the two main types of cells?
Visit the site below and answer questions #3-4.
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/typical_animal_cell/
3. Organelles are different parts of a cell that complete jobs. Describe the job of the nucleus.
4. What organelle provides the energy for cell activities? ______________
Visit the site below and answer questions #5-6.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/plantcell.html
5. Plant cells make their own food and must store the liquids. The storage unit in a plant cell is
the ______________.
6. This protective "fence" is not animal cells, only plant cells. ___________________
Visit the site below and answer questions #7-8.
http://askabiologist.asu.edu/content/cell-parts
7. Inside chloroplasts, this very important scientific process takes place.
8. DNA can be found in this organelle. _________________________
Watch and listen carefully to the cell song. Then answer questions #9-10.
http://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/the-cell-song-3/
9. This jelly like substance is found inside the cell. _____________________
10. The cell membrane acts as a ______________________.
11. Label the diagrams below using this site. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
The Great Cell Scavenger Hunt
Answer key
1.
Cells are small compartments that hold the biological equipment necessary to keep an organism
alive and successful. Living things may be single-celled or they may be very complex such as a
human being.
2. In biology class, you will usually work with plant-like cells and animal-like cells.
3. The nucleus acts as the control center of the cell and is responsible for the instructions
for protein synthesis and the transmitting of DNA.
4. Mitochondria
5. Vacuole
6. Cell wall
7. Photosynthesis
8. Nucleus
9. Cytoplasm
10. Gatekeeper
11. A. cell membrane
B. cell wall
C. cytoplasm
D. vacuole
E. nucleus
F. chloroplast
G. centioles
H. mitochondria
I. endoplasmic reticulum