1. What is in a plant cell?

2. Unit Standards
5.L.4B.1
Analyze and Interpret data to explain how organisms obtain their energy and classify organisms as producers, consumers (including herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore), or decomposers (such as Fungi, Bacteria insects and molds).
5.L.4B.2
Develop and use models of food chains and food webs to describe the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
5.L.4B.3
Construct explanations for how organisms interact with each other in an ecosystem (including predators and prey, and parasites and hosts).
5.L.4B.4
Construct scientific arguments to explain how limiting factors (including food, water, space, and shelter) or newly introduced organisms can affect an ecosystem.

3. What is inside a plant cell?
Plant cells have many of the same structures and organelles as animal cells.
However, plant cells often have a box-like shape and are a bit larger than animal cells.
They also have some additional organelles that animal cells do not have.

4. What is inside a plant cell?
Cell wall- Plant cells have an additional outer covering around the outside of the cell.
The cell wall is a stiff structure outside the cell membrane.
It provides the plant cell with strength and extra support.

5. What is inside a plant cell?
Vacuole- stores extra water for plants
Plant cells usually have one large, central vacuole.
In plant cells this vacuole stores excess water and provides extra support.
The extra water in the vacuole of plant cells keeps the plant from drying out.
When a plant needs extra water the vacuoles release the water they have stored into the cells.

6. What is inside a plant cell?
Chloroplast- where plants make their own food
A chloroplast is a green structure where the energy from sunlight is used to produce food for the plant.
Chloroplasts are green because they contain a chemical called chlorophyll
Chlorophyll- a chemical that is able to use the energy in sunlight to produce food for the plant.

7. What is inside a plant cell?
Many plant cells are green because of the chlorophyll in their chloroplasts.
Plant cells that lack chloroplasts are not green. Chloroplasts are mainly found in the cells of leaves and stems of plants.