2 types of plant protists diatoms, algae 4 groups of animallike protists ameboids, ciliates, flangellates, sporozoa ameboids protists that have psuedopod or false foot animal-like protists are called protozoans animal-like protists divided into 4 basic groups based on how they MOVE and LIVE autotrophic an organism (as a plant) that can make its own food from substances that do not come from other living things cilia tiny hairs move these protists thru watery environment and help organism eat food Ciliates - animal-like move by beating tiny cilia that move them thru singe celled watery environment to organism find food diatoms live in oceans and are a food source for other living things euglena - an animal like protist that moves by whipping its tail like structure called a flagellem flagellum a long whiplike structure by which some tiny plants and animals move heterotrophs an organism (as an insect, bird, fish, or human being) that cannot make its own food and must obtain it by eating other animals plant like protists can live in soil, bark of trees, fresh water, and salt water plant-like protists important to Earth because they produce oxygen most living things need oxygen to survive protist single celled organisms often found in water pseudopod finger like structures that project organism forward used to trap food volvox (plant-like protists) live in algae that is found in fresh water make up spiral colonies