Cell Organelles Quiz

Which organelle is the control center of the cell?

• Cell membrane

• Ribosomes

• Nucleus

• Cytoplasm

What is the covering that surrounds the cell and controls what gets in and out of the cell?

• Cytoplasm

• Cell membrane

• Ribosomes

• Nucleus

What is the jelly-like fluid surrounding the cell organelles, outside the nucleus?

• Nucleolus

• Cytoplasm

• Ribosomes

• Cell membrane

What is the dark spot inside the nucleus that makes ribosomes?

• Cytoplasm

• Cell membrane

• Ribosomes

• Nucleolus

What is the smallest but most abundant organelle, hooks amino acids together to make protein?

• Cytoplasm

• Nucleus

• Ribosomes

• Cell membrane

What is the organelle where photosynthesis takes place, only in plants and algae?

• Mitochondrion

• Cell wall

• Nucleus

• Chloroplast

What are the clear tubes that act as 'highways', transporting proteins and other things around the cell?

• Cytoplasm

• Rough endoplasmic reticulum

• Smooth endoplasmic reticulum

• Ribosomes

Which organelle does cellular respiration and makes ATP energy for the cell?

• Cell wall

• Chloroplast

• Nucleus

• Mitochondrion

What is a large membrane covered organelle that stores water and other liquids, and is huge in plant cells?

• Vacuole

• Golgi Complex

• Vesicles

• Nucleus

What are special vesicles that contain digestive enzymes that break down old plant cells?

• Lysosomes

• Nuclear membrane

• Golgi apparatus

• Cell wall