Name ______________________________________________ Date ________________
Determine what organelles are being described by the clues below. Then sketch a diagram of each
organelle.
NUCLEUS
NUCLEOLUS
MITOCHONDRIA
CELL MEMBRANE
CHROMOSOMES
CHLOROPLASTS
CYTOPLASM
RIBOSOMES
GOLGI BODIES
VACUOLE
LYSOSOMES
CENTRIOLES
ENDOPLASMIC
RETICULUM
PORES OF MEMBRANE
CELL WALL
VESICLES
CHROMOSOMES
1. ___________________________I’m rather bossy because I have all
the codes for what needs to be done in the cell?
2.
NUCLEOLUS
___________________________
Housed in the nucleus, I’m kinda like the human
resource department who hires all the cell’s workers? Can you guess who I am?
3.
CYTOPLASM
___________________________
I am the ‘filling of the cell’, kinda like the jelly in a doughnut.
Who
am I?
4.
VACUOLE
___________________________
Storing food and water is what we do.
We are
bigger in a plant cell than an animal cell. Who might we be?
5.
LYSOSOME
___________________________
Known as the suicide sacs in the cell.
Watch
out, I’ll come destroy you! What’s my name?
6.
RIBOSOMES
___________________________
We are in abundance because we are busy making all of the
proteins for your body!
7.
CELL MEMBRANE
___________________________
We are like the ‘bouncers’ of the cell, only letting certain
materials in and out. What are we?
GOLGI BODIES
8. ___________________________
We are the warehouse of the cell. We take in materials
to ship them elsewhere in the cell. You think you know us?
9.
CENTRIOLES
___________________________
More is more.
We help to make more cells. Who are we?
CHLOROPLASTS
10. ___________________________
Green is color, making food is our game…what’s our name?
MITOCHONDRIA
11. ___________________________
We are the sites of many chemical reactions,
making energy for the cell. Who are we?
ER
12. ___________________________
We are connected directly to the nucleus and provide a
passage way for materials to move throughout cell. Who are we?
13.
VESICLES
___________________________
We are the little, material-carrying ‘pods’ that get sent from
place to place in the cell. What is our name?
14.
PORES
___________________________
Our name rhyme with ‘doors’ and we have a their same
function. Can you figure out who we are?
15.
CELL WALL
___________________________
The thick out covering of plant cells.
Made of cellulose. Who might I be?
NUCLEUS
16. ___________________________
I am typically the center of the cell and I keep
the blueprints of the cell inside my walls.