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The Building Blocks of Life

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following are organisms?

Check all that are true.

a)

bacteri in a petri dish

b)

hands

c)

snow

d)

baseball

e)

lizard

2.

Which from the image are NOT organisms?

Check all that are true.

a)

flowers

b)

book

c)

children

d)

woman

e)

road

3.

Why are cells called the building blocks of life?

a)

All buildings are made from cells.

b)

Cells can be built like blocks.

c)

Cells have no shape.

d)

All organisms are built out of cells.

4.

Write them from least number of cells to

greatest number of cells.

Cell

Organ System

Tissue

Organ

Organism

4 lines
5.

Correct the statement below.

Multicellular organisms have more than one cell, and unicellular organisms have one cell.

a)

Multicellular organisms have one cell, and unicellular organisms have more than one cell.

b)

Both unicellular and multicellular organisms have more than one cell.

c)

Both unicellular and multicellular organisms have one cell.

d)

The statement is already true.

6.

Which of the following are parts of the cell?

Check all that are true.

a)

lungs

b)

a nucleus

c)

vacuoles

d)

bloode

e)

a cell membrane

7.

Which parts of the cell are found in both plant and animal cells?

Check all that are true.

a)

mitochondria

b)

a nucleus

c)

cytoplasm

d)

chloroplast

e)

a cell wall

8.

Which of the following are true statements?

Check all that are true.

a)

The cytoplasm is the jelly-like substance that fills the cell.

b)

The cell wall controls what enters and leaves the cell.

c)

The vacuole stores food, water, and waste in the cell.

d)

The nucleus creates energy for the cell.

e)

The vacuole controls all of the activity of a cell.

9.

What is the name and function of the highlighted cell part?

a)

These are mitochondria. They burn food to make energy.

b)

This is a chloroplast. It creates food for plants from the Sun’s energy.

c)

This is the nucleus. It controls the activity of the cell.

d)

This is the cell membrane. It keeps the cell together.

10.

What is the name and function of this cell part?

a)

This is the chloroplast. It creates food for plants from the sun’s energy.

b)

This is the nucleus. It controls the activity of the cell.

c)

This is the cell membrane. It holds the cell together.

d)

This is the vacuole. It stores food and water for the cell.

11.

Your teacher has you look at cells from two different organisms under a microscope. He wants to know what kind of organisms the cells came from. Based on the pictures of the cells, what can you conclude?

Check all that are true.

a)

Organism A is an animal because the cells are round and do not have a rigid shape.

b)

Organism B is a plant because the cells have a rigid shape, a cell wall, and chloroplasts.

c)

Organism B is an animal because the cells have a rigid shape and are green.

d)

Organism A is a plant because the cells have a nucleus.

12.

Which of the following are organisms?

Check all that are true.

a)

Bacteria

b)

hands

c)

baseball

d)

snow

e)

lizard