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Cell Test

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a rigid layer of nonliving material that surrounds the cells of plants?
a)
Cell Wall
b)
Lysosome
c)
Vacuole
d)
Golgi Body
2.
What helps support and protect the cell?
a)
Cell Membrane
b)
Cell Wall
c)
Mitochondria 
d)
Ribosomes
3.
What controls what substances come into and out of a cell?
a)
Cell membrane
b)
Cell wall
c)
ER
d)
Cytoplasm
4.
What is the cell's control center?
a)
Cell membrane
b)
Ribosome
c)
Nucleus
d)
Chloroplast
5.
What helps protect the nucleus?
a)
Cell Wall
b)
Nuclear membrane
c)
Cytoplasm
d)
Vacuole
6.
What are strands that contain genetic material? These are instructions that direct the functions of a cell.
a)
Chromatin
b)
Nucleolus
c)
Lysosome
d)
Chloroplast
7.
Where are ribosomes made?
a)
Nucleus
b)
Chromatin
c)
Nucleolus
d)
Cytoplasm
8.
What is the gel-like region between the cell membrane and the nucleus?
a)
Nucleolus
b)
Chromatin
c)
Cytoplasm
d)
Golgi Bodies
9.
What is known as the powerhouse of the cell?
a)
Vacuole
b)
Mitochondria
c)
ER
d)
Lysosome
10.
What are passageways that carry proteins from one part of the cell to the other?
a)
ER
b)
Mitochondria
c)
Ribosomes
d)
Chloroplasts
11.
What are the factories where proteins are produced known as?
a)
Golgi bodies
b)
Mitochondria
c)
Ribosomes
d)
Chloroplasts
12.
What receives, packages, and distributes proteins?
a)
ER
b)
Mitochondria
c)
Golgi Bodies
d)
Chloroplasts
13.
What captures energy from sunlight and using it to produce food for the cell?
a)
Cell Wall
b)
ER
c)
Chloroplasts
d)
Lysosomes
14.
What is the storage area of the cell?
a)
Vacuole
b)
Lysosome
c)
ER
d)
Nucleolus
15.
What are the small, round structures that contain chemicals that break down large food particles into smaller ones?
a)
Vacuole
b)
Lysosome
c)
ER
d)
Nucleus
16.
Cells are the basic units of structure and ____________ in living things?
a)
Function
b)
Ability
c)
Compound
d)
Nucleus
17.
Cells are so small that we have to use what to see them?
a)
Glasses
b)
Microscope
c)
Eyes
d)
Telescope
18.
Who was the first person to observe cells?
a)
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
b)
Mrs. Turner
c)
Robert Hooke
d)
Ms. Frys
19.
Who used water from a pong to study bacteria?
a)
Robert Hooke
b)
Mrs. Turner
c)
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
d)
Albert Einstein
20.
What is a widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things known as?
a)
Magnification
b)
Resolution
c)
Cell Theory
d)
Chloroplasts
21.
For a light microscope to be useful, what two properties must be combined?
a)
Lens and light
b)
Magnification and resolution
c)
Cells and light 
d)
Magnification and light
22.
What is the ability to make things look larger than they are?
a)
Resolution
b)
Magnification
c)
Light
d)
Lens
23.
What is the ability to clearly distinguish the individual parts of an object called?
a)
Resolution
b)
Magnification
c)
Light
d)
Lens
24.
What are tiny cell structures that carry out specific functions within the cell known as?
a)
Cell wall
b)
Plants 
c)
Organelles
d)
Cellulose
25.
What is the cell wall made of?
a)
Water
b)
Oxygen
c)
Membranes
d)
Cellulose
26.
True/False Animal cells have cell walls?
a)
True
b)
False
27.
True/False Ribosomes can be found floating in the cytoplasm.
a)
True
b)
False
28.
Most __________ cells have one large vacuole. 
a)
Animal
b)
Plant
c)
Golgi body
d)
Ribosome
29.
What organelle is known as the cell's mail room?
a)
Cell Wall
b)
Cell Membrane
c)
Golgi Body
d)
Ribosome
30.
What organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell?
a)
Nucleus
b)
Mitochondria
c)
Chloroplasts 
d)
Vacuoles
31.
Which organelle produces food for the cell?
a)
Nucleus
b)
Mitochondria
c)
Chloroplasts
d)
Cell Wall
32.
True/False Bacterial cells are larger than plant and animal cells. 
a)
True
b)
False