A plant cell's vacuole is larger than an animal cell's because the plant cell needs to store more water than the animal cell. There is also only one vacuole in the plant cell and many in the animal cell.

The way a cell releases energy from food is respiration.

The smallest, most basic unit of life is a cell.

The watery part of the cell that all of the other cell parts float in is called the cytoplasm.

The breaking down of food inside the body or cell is digestion.

Scientists can study parts of a cell by using a microscope.

The thick outer covering of a plant cell is called the cell wall.

The cell part that contains DNA is the nucleus.

Two or more atoms joined together are called a molecule.

The green material in plant cells that allows them to make their own food is called chlorophyll.

The thin outer covering of a cell is called the cell membrane.

Matter that is made of only one kind of atom is an element.

The plant cell part that stores green material is called the chloroplast.

Mitochondria is the part of the cell where cellular respiration occurs, when the cell releases energy from food.

The force that holds atoms together is called a chemical bond.