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Y7 - cells and microscopes

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which features do both plant and animal cells have?

a)

nucleus, cell wall, vacuole

b)

cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm

c)

cell membrane, cytoplasm, chloroplasts

d)

cytoplasm, nucleus, cell wall

2.

Which part of a cell controls its activities (tells it what to do)?

a)

nucleus

b)

cytoplasm

c)

cell membrane

d)

cell wall

3.

Which part of a cell is a jelly-like substance and many of the cell's activities happen within it?

a)

cell wall

b)

cell membrane

c)

vacuole

d)

cytoplasm

4.

Which part of a plant cell is a green disc that allows the plant to make sugar by photosynthesis?

a)

cytoplasm

b)

vacuole

c)

chloroplast

d)

ribosome

5.

Which part of a plant cell helps to support the cell and keep its shape?

a)

vacuole

b)

cell wall

c)

cytoplasm

d)

chloroplast

6.

Which part of a plant cell is a storage space filled with cell sap?

a)

vacuole

b)

cell membrane

c)

mitochondria

d)

chloroplast

7.

Which part of a cell keeps the cell together and controls what goes into and out of the cell?

a)

cell wall

b)

vacuole

c)

mitochondria

d)

cell membrane

8.

What is the name of the part of the microscope that you look through?

a)

objective lens

b)

stage

c)

eyepiece lens

d)

slide

9.

What is the name of the part of the microscope that you put a slide onto?

a)

coverslip

b)

stage

c)

slide

d)

focussing wheel

10.

What is the name of the part of the microscope that you turn to make the image clearer?

a)

focussing lens

b)

focussing wheel

c)

eyepiece lens

d)

objective lens

11.

Which part of the microscope allows light to reach the specimen?

a)

stage

b)

coverslip

c)

objective lens

d)

mirror

12.

What do you call the small square of glass that covers the specimen on a slide?

a)

coverslip

b)

iodine

c)

stain

d)

slide

13.

What stain did we use to help us to see the onion cells?

a)

methylene blue

b)

water

c)

iodine

d)

objective lens

14.

What stain did we use to help us to see the cheek cells?

a)

methylene blue

b)

water

c)

iodine

d)

objective lens

15.

What piece of equipment is used to help to lower the coverslip onto the specimen?

a)

coverslip

b)

slide

c)

mounted needle

d)

iodine

16.

Which of the following is not one of the words in "Mrs Gren"?

a)

movement

b)

sensitivity

c)

growth

d)

execution

17.

Which of the following IS one of the words in "Mrs Gren"?

a)

nutrition

b)

sensible

c)

respite

d)

sublimation