Analogies for Cell Organelles

This organelle controls the cell's main activities; DNA is also found here. (Analogy: cockpit of an airplane)

• vacuole
• chloroplast
• nucleus
• mitochondria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

This organelle surrounds the cell and controls what enters/leaves the cell (Analogy: gates or doors of the school)

• Golgi body
• cell wall
• cell membrane
• vacuole

This organelle is the "powerhouse" of the cell; it breaks down food to release energy (Analogy: power plants or food processing plants of a city)

• vacuole
• mitochondria
• nucleus
• ribosome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

This organelle moves substances within the cell and has pipelike structures (Analogy: city buses or transportation vehicles)

• endoplasmic reticulum
• vacuole
• mitochondria
• lysosome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

This organelle makes proteins and are the round substances located on the rough endoplasmic reticulum (Analogy: lumber or brick yards)

• ribosomes
• nucleus
• mitochondria
• lysosoe

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

This organelle packages, sort and distribute cell products (Analogy: mail room or Wal-Mart distribution center)

• cell membrane
• mitochondria
• golgi body
• lysosome

this organelle contains enzymes that breaks down big molecules to smaller molecules (Analogy: garbage disposal)

• lysosome
• cell membrane
• vacuole
• endoplasmic reticulum

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

this organelle holds materials like water and other products for storage (Analogy: water tower)

• lysosome
• vacuole
• nucleus
• cell membrane

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Which organelle is only found in a plant cell? 

• nucleus
• chloroplast
• mitochondria
• cell membrane

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

I am a protein packaging and shipping machine! Who am I?

• vacuole
• ribosome
• endoplasmic reticulum
• golgi apparatus