Function Cards: Cell Organelles

Captures energy from the sunlight and uses it to produce food in plant cells

• cell membrane

• chloroplast

• cytoplasm

• nucleus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Controls what comes into and out of the cell; found in plant and animal cells

• cell membrane

• chloroplast

• cytoplasm

• nucleus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Gel-like fluid where the organells are found

• chloroplast

• chlorophyll

• pigment

• cytoplasm

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Control center of the cell; contains DNA

• mitochondria

• cell membrane

• nucleus

• chromatin

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Ridged outer layer of a plant cell

• chloroplast

• cell membrane

• chlorophyll

• cell wall

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Produces the energy a cell needs to carry out its functions

• mitochondria

• ER

• Golgi bodies

• vacuoles

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Has passageways that carry proteins and other materials from one part of the cell to another

• mitochondria

• vacuole

• ribosome

• ER

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Stores food, water, wastes and other materials

• mitochondria

• chloroplast

• vacuole

• nucleus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2