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Cell Organelle Web Quest

Objective: Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to describe the cell and identify its parts (organelles). You should be able to distinguish between plant and animal cells.

PART I

Go to:

Click “Next” to begin the activity. Answer the following questions.

1. What do ribosomes do?

2. What do they look like?

3. What does the Golgi apparatus (or Golgi bodies) do?

4. What is the function of the mitochondria?

5. Which type of cell has many peroxisomes?

6. What is the function of the nucleus?

7. What is chromatin?

PART II

Go to the interactive cell models at

8. What is the difference between smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER)?

9. Where is the nucleus found?

10. Cytosol goes by what other name?

11. What is the function of a lysosome?

12. What makes plant cells green?

13. What does a vacuole do?

PART III

Go to: (you can get to it from my blog)

Answer the following questions by clicking on the text or by rolling over the organelles in the picture.

1. The cell wall does 2 things. What are they?

a.b.

2. What do vacuoles store? (3 things)

3. The golgi apparatus groups ______and ______, packages them in ______, then ______them outside or within the cell.

4. Chloroplasts help plant cells use ______through a process called ______.

5. What do mitochondria produce? What do they use to produce it?

6. What does every cell hold in its nucleus?

7. Where are the two places ribosomes can be found?

8. Where might the endoplasmic reticulum send proteins?

9. What does the plasma membrane (cell membrane) control?

10. What would happen to the cell if the cytoplasm didn’t keep its shape?

List each part of the cell (the 10 from the questions above) and write the nickname that this website gives that part.

Cell wall –

Vacuole –

Golgi apparatus-

Chloroplasts-

Mitochondria -

Nucleus -

Ribosomes -

Endoplasmic reticulum-

Plasma membrane (cell membrane) -

Cytoplasm -

When you have written the 10 nicknames, you may click on “Play the game.”

PART IV

Finished with time to spare? Go back to

Click on PUZZLES on the left hand side of the screen and complete a cell puzzle.

You may also try a review game:

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