Name: ___________________________________
Core: ________
Date: ______________
**Organelle Stations Worksheet**
STATION 1: CELL MEMBRANE
1. Function of Cell Membrane:
2. What do the proteins inside the phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane do?
3. Draw what the lipid bilayer of a cell membrane looks like. Include 1 protein.
STATION 2: CELL WALL
4. Function of Cell Wall:
5. What kind of cells are cell walls found in? _____________________________
6. How does a tall redwood tree maintain its shape if it doesn’t have a skeleton like you and me?
7. There are holes in cell walls called plasmodesmata that allow plant cells to exchange nutrients. What is one downside
to all these holes?
STATION 3: CYTOPLASM
8. Function of Cytoplasm:
9. What two structures act as the “skeleton” in the cell (they cytoplasm fills the spaces in between)?
STATION 4: NUCLEUS
10. Function of Nucleus:
11. What kind of cells contain a nucleus? _____________________
12. Do all cells contain genetic information in the form of DNA? ___________
STATION 5: CENTRIOLES
13. Function of Centrioles:
STATION 6: RIBOSOMES
14. Function of Ribosomes:
15. Where are 2 places ribosomes can be found inside the cell?
STATION 7: MITOCHONDRIA
16. Function of Mitochondria:
17. What type of cell in the human body would have a lot of mitochondria? ______________________________
18. Why is the inner membrane of the mitochondria folded?
STATION 8: CHLOROPLASTS
19. Function of Chloroplasts:
20. What kind of cells contain chloroplasts? _________________________________ Which don’t? _________________
21. What happens when the Sun hits the chloroplast and the chlorophyll molecules inside?
STATION 9: ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM
22: Function of Rough ER:
23. Function of Smooth ER:
24. What is attached to the Rough “ER” that gives it its bumpy appearance?
STATION 10: GOLGI APPARATUS
25. Function of Golgi Apparatus:
STATION 11: LYSOSOMES:
26. Function of Lysosomes:
STATION 12: VACUOLE
27. Function of Vacuoles:
28. Which has a larger central vacuole, an animal cell or a plant cell? _______________________