Name ______Period ____ Date ______
Hunt for the Protist Kingdom
Here are some good websites to start with. You may also use your textbook, or any other website you find usefull.
On-Line Biology Book: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_3.html
Ron’s Pond Scum: http://www.silkentent.com/gus1911/RonPond.htm
Microscopy-UK: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html
(Look under Main Resources for Smallest Page on the Web and Pond Life ID kit)
Classification of Protists
1. How do protists obtain their energy?
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2. List three places protists may be found.
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Protozoa: Single-celled, Motile Organisms
3. What methods of reproduction are used by protists?
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4. There are three ways protists move around. What are the methods of locomotion used by protists?
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Protozoa: Single-celled, Motile Organisms
5. Draw a picture of each type of protozoan based on the method of locomotion. Be sure to label your pictures. (nucleus, cilia or flagella or pseudopod, contractile vacuole, etc.)
· Amoeboid Protozoa Use Pseudopods for Movement
· Ciliates
Rhizopods (Amoeba) / Flagellates (Trypanosoma)-No labels needed for this example-
Ciliates (Paramecium) / Sporozoans
Sporozoans
6. What diseases are caused by sporozoans (Phylum Apicomplexa)?
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7. What are the three modes of transmission for malaria? (How is it spread?)
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Ciliates
8. Most ciliates have two nuclei, what are their names and functions?
Name: ______function: ______
Name: ______function: ______
9. What is the role of the contractile vacuole?
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Euglenophyta
10. What organelle allows the Euglena to be autotrophic?
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Pyrrophyta, the Dinoflagellates
11. What is meant by a red tide?
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12. What group of protists causes red tides? ______
13. What makes red tides so dangerous? ______
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Phaeophyta
14. Giant sea kelp is not a plant, what type of protist is it?
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The Paramecium - The Most Studied Of All the Protozoa
15. Describe how paramecia defend themselves?
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The Actinopods
16. How do the Actinopods catch their prey?
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Some Common and Not So Common Stentor
17. What do Stentors eat? ______
18. How do Stentors feed?
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19. What organelle is analogous (same as) to a stomach in a stentor and other protists?
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Crustaceans (Free Living Copepods)
20. If exposed to intense artificial light the Blepharisma disintegrates and dies, why?
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Amoebas
21. How fast can an amoeba move?
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22. Amoebas are classified as (carnivore, herbivore, omnivore)? Explain.
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Summary of Protist Kingdom
23. What characteristics make the Protist kingdom unique? ______
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24. What single feature could be used to separate the different phyla of protozoa?
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25. What single feature could be used to separate the different phyla of algae?
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Organism A moves by means of ______.
Organism A is this type of protozoan, a(n) ______.
Organism A is a(n) ______.
Organism B moves by means of a(n) ______.
Organism B is this type of protist, a(n) ______.
Organism B is a(n)______.
Organism C moves by means of ______.
Organism C is a type of protozoan, a(n) ______.
Organism C is a(n) ______.
3 major divisions of protists and list the characteristic by which they are classified:
a. Plant like - à ______
b. Fungus like - à ______
c. Animal like - à ______
Multiple Choice:
____1. The animal – like protist are called ______.
a. algae c. protozoans
b. diatoms d. fungi
____2. The amoeba moves with the use of a false foot called a(n) ______.
a. flagella c. chitin
b. cilia d. pseudopodia
____3. Fungi have cell walls made of ______.
a. cellulose c. plasma
b. chitin d. mold
____4. Yeast are a fungi that reproduce by a process where once the parent matures new individuals pinches
off the parent this type of asexual reproduction is called ______.
a. budding c. fragmentation
b. binary fission d. spores
____5. A lichen is a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a(n)______.
a. green algae c. another fungi
b. plant d. animal
____6. ______is not a fungi.
a. mushroom c. bread mold
b. yeast d. euglena
____7. The plant – like protist are called ______.
a. protozoans c. fungi
b. algae d. diatoms
____8. Some protist use a tail for moving called a(n)______.
a. flagella c. pseudopodia
b. cilia d. spores
____9. A reproductive cell that forms without fertilization and produces a new organism is a(n) ______.
a. egg c. fragment
b. spore d. alternation of generation
____10. Fungi that break down complex organic substances into raw materials that other
organisms can use are
a. parasites. b. mutualists. c. decomposers. d. autotrophs.
____11. Mycorrihiza is a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a(n) ______.
a. green algae c. another fungi
b. plant d. animal
____12. The plasmodium that causes malaria can move from place to place by ______.
a. flagella c. pseudopodia
b. cilia d. mosquitoes
____13. Algae gets its food by______.
a. photosynthesis c. decomposition
b. capturing prey d. osmosis
____14. Protozoan’s get food by ______.
a. photosynthesis c. decomposition
b. capturing prey d. osmosis
____ 15. Fungi gets food by ______.
a. photosynthesis c. decomposition
b. capturing prey d. osmosis
____16. Some protozoan’s move by using the hair like structures moving them like oars on a ship these
structures are called ______.
a. flagella c. pseudopodia
b. cilia d. hair oars
____17. Green algae can reproduce asexually by breaking into pieces and each piece grows into an individual,
this type of asexual reproduction is ______.
a. spores c. binary fission
b. budding d. fragmentation
____ 18. Many protozoa are classified according to
a. there method of getting food
b. the way that they move
c. their method of reproduction
d. their habitats
____ 19. An amoeba engulfs food by
a. using its oral groove and cilia
b. osmosis
c. surrounding the food with pseudopodia
d. forming a cysts
____ 20. A protozoa that moves by lashing one or more of its whiplike parts is a
a. ciliate
b. sporozoan
c. water mold
d. flagellat
Use the pictures to answer the questions below. Questions may have multiple answers. YOU MAY USE THEM MORE THAN ONCE!
21 ____ Amoeba
22. ____ Move by means of cilia
23. ____ Move by means of a pseudopodia
24. ____ Euglena
25. ____ Paramecium
26. ____ Volvox
27. Plant-Like Protista ______
28. Animal-Like Protista ______
29. Fungus-like Protista ______
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