Cells Vocabulary

1. basic unit of structure and function in all living things.

• Cells

• Cell Membrane

• Cell wall

• Chloroplast

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

 thin outside layer that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the movement of materials into and out of the cell

• Cell membrane

• Cell wall

• Chloroplast

• Cytoplasm

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Usually rigid wall that surrounds the membrane of plant cells

• cell wall

• chloroplast

• cytoplasm

• nucleus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Work to convert light energy from the Sun into food for a plant cell

• chloroplast

• cytoplasm

• nucleus

• mitochondria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Jelly that fills the inside of a cell, helps hold the cell’s organelles in place.

• cytoplasm

• nucleus

• mitochondria

• unicellular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

 Main control center for the cell and acts kind of like the cell’s brain.

• nucleus

• mitochondria

• unicellular

• multicellular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Provides energy to the cell

• mitochondria

• unicellular

• multicellular

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

(single-celled) an organism made up of only one cell

• unicellular

• multicellular

• organism

• vacuole

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

an organism that is made up of more than one cell

• multicellular

• organism

• vacuole

• organelle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

A living thing

• organism

• vacuole

• organelle

• organ

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1