Structure of the plant cell
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Draw onion-skin cells and label 4 parts.
Cell wall, cytoplasm, nucleus, vacuole.
2
Make a table: plastid type β colour β job.
Chloroplast β green β photosynthesis; chromoplast β yellow/red β colours flowers and fruit; leucoplast β colourless β storage.
3
Look at a piece of tomato or watermelon with a magnifier and describe the cells (cut only with an adult).
Grainy, juicy, large cells are visible.
4
Why is it important that the cell wall is transparent and strong? Write 2β3 sentences.
Being strong it protects the cell and keeps its shape; being transparent it lets light in.