BIOLOGY: Protozoan Study Guide
KINGDOM PROTISTA
CLUE
How many cells do protists have?
In habitat are most protists found?
How are the four phyla of protists organized?
Are most protists autotrophic or heterotrophic?
What phylum make up the amoeba?
What phylum make up the ciliates?
What phylum make up the flagellates?
What phylum make up the nonmotile protists that form
spores?
What term is given to protists that lack a body shape?
What do amoeba use to move and engulf food?
What is another name for the above?
In what organelle do amoeba place ingested food?
In what organelle do amoeba collect excess water?
In what type of solution do most amoeba live, where
excess water must be handled?
What process do amoeba reproduce?
Where are other places to find amoeba beside fresh
water?
How do ciliates move around?
What is the most common ciliate?
What is the firm but flexible covering of the
paramecium?
TERM
CLUE
What part of the paramecium holds multiple gene
copies?
What part of the paramecium handles reproduction for
the cell?
What part of the paramecium brings in food for the cell?
What type of protists use flagella for movement?
What is the most common protist of this group?
How do protists of phylum mastigophora reproduce?
What is a main characteristic of protists from the
phylum sporozoa?
What do protists from the phylum produce for
reproduction?
What sporozoan causes malaria?
What other colonial single-celled organisms are
classified within the kingdom Protista?
What accounts for 70% of oxygen producing
organisms?
TERM