Essential Questions
• What are the four types of protists?
How are they different?
How A Tiny Amoeba Can Eat Your Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEPAS7pB7Y8
What’s a Protist?
• “Protista” – is a kingdom of life
What’s a Protist?
• All protists are:
1) Eukaryotic
2) Microscopic
(most are
unicellular)
3) Aquatic (live in
water)
Four Types of Protists
Name
How It Eats
How It
Moves
Name
Amoeba
How It Eats
How It
Moves
Surrounds/engulfs pseudopod
food using
pseudopod (an
extension of the
cytoplasm that
forms when the
cytoplasm extends
away from the
nucleus.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6rnhiMxtKU
Name
How It Eats
How It
Moves
Paramecium
“Sweep” food
into cell
Cilia (tiny hairs
used for
movement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_yjLppNAg
Name
How It Eats
How It
Moves
Euglena
Photosynthesis Flagellum whiplike tail that
moves quickly
back & forth to
propel the
Euglena
through water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0TzaWUQWk
Name
Volvox
*Colony of
many cells*
How It Eats
How It
Moves
Mainly
Flagella whipphotosynthesis like tail that
moves quickly
back & forth to
propel the
Volvox through
water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKp35rRlUZo
Protist Foldable
• Page 17 in Science
Notebook
• Outside flap: Name
of Protist
• Top Inside: Colored
illustration
• Bottom Inside:
How it Eats, How it
Moves
AMOEBA
EUGLENA
PARAMECIUM
VOLVOX
Protist Profile Glossary Words
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Cilia
Flagellum
Pseudopod
Autotrophic
Heterotrophic
Locomotion
Eye Spot
Photosynthesis