Name_______________ Cells: Video Guide

Bio Ch 3

Directions: View the film and correctly fill in the corresponding information.

microscope
1. With the invention of the ______________________ 300 years ago, small creatures became
visible.

cells
2. Hooke became famous for using the word ___________________ to describe the divisions
in a piece of cork wood.

3. Robert Brown called the blog-like structure inside each cell the
nucleus
________________________.

life
4. Cells are the basic building blocks of _______________________________.

amoeba
5. The __________________________ is one of the simplest living creatures.

cytoplasm
6. In the ______________________________ all the chemical reactions that keep the cell alive
take place.

box
7. Typical plant cell have a __________________-like shape.

8. A chemical reaction with sunlight converts the carbon dioxide and water into
food
____________________________, this happens in

leaf
the cells of each _________________________.

9. Root cells are specially designed to take in water, they have hairs to increase their
surface
_____________________ area.
10. Cells trap materials from the outside and package them into tiny cargo bubbles called
vesicles
__________________________.

11. According to the film what is nature’s most complex machine?

the human body
_____________________________________________.