Name_______________________ Hr: ____Date: ________ Due __________
Protists and Kinds of Protists
_____1. What Kingdom do protists belong to?
a. Plant
b. Animal
Book A, Ch.3, sec. 1 & 2
c. Protista
_____2. Most protists are made of how many cells?
a. four
b. three
c. two
d. Fungus
d. one
3. All protists are _________________, which means that each of their cells has a nucleus.
4. What are two examples of protists?
a. ______________________________
b. ______________________________
5. Name three traits that can differ among protists.
a. _____________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________
c. _____________________________________________
6. How do protists differ from other eukaryotic organisms?
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_____ 7. What function do chloroplasts perform in protist producers?
a. capture energy from the sun
c. give the protist shape
b.capture organisms to eat
d. help the protist move
8. What is the term for the process protists use to make their own food?____________________
9. Name two ways protists get food.
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
10. A protist that makes its own food is a(n)_________________________.
11. Organisms that cannot make their own food are _____________________________.
12. Many heterotrophs are ______________________, which invade other organisms
to get nutrients.
13. An organism invaded by a parasite for nutrients is called a(n) ______________________.
14. Protist heterotrophs that break down dead matter for energy are ______________________.
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15. What do many protist heterotrophs eat? ____________________________________
Hetero – means other
Troph- means eat
16. In what three ways do protist heterotrophs get food?
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________________
17. Name one example of a parasite causing harm to its host.
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_____18. In asexual reproduction, how many parents are there?
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
_____19. In asexual reproduction, what process do single-celled protists use to divide into two cells?
a. conjugation
b. binary fission
c. multiple fission
d. single-cell fission
_____20. What process do single-celled protists use in asexual reproduction to make more than two
offspring from one parent?
a. conjugation
b. binary fission
c. multiple fission
d. single-cell fission
Kinds of Protists
_____21. What is the name for protists that convert the sun’s energy into food?
a. slime molds
b. algae
c. amoebas
d. parasites
_____22. All types of algae have what color pigment?
a. red
b. blue
c. brown
d. green
_____23. Where do most types of algae live?
a. in dirt
b. in water
c. in sand
d. in plants
_____24. Which of the following is an alga that lives in shallow water along the shore?
a. phytoplankton
b. seaweed
c. water mold
d. radiolarian
_____25. Which of the following provides most of the world’s oxygen?
a. phytoplankton
b. seaweed
c. amoebas
d. flagellates
26. Name four places where green algae live.
____________________________
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MATCHING
_____27. the algae group most of the world’s
seaweed belong to
a. brown algae
_____28. the protist producers that use
photosynthesis to make food
b. algae
_____29. the main pigment in these algae
cells is chlorophyll
c. green algae
_____30. the cell of this organism contains a
glasslike substance called silica
d. phytoplankton
_____31.
e. colony
many individual protists living
together as a group
_____32. free-floating single-celled algae
f. red algae
_____33. seaweeds that live in cool climates
g. diatoms
34. Individual cells of some green algae live in groups called _______________.
35. Where are diatoms found? _______________________________________
36. The cell walls of diatoms contain __________________________.
37. The whip-like strands on a dinoflagellate that cause the cells to spin through water are
called _________________________.
38. Where can amoebas be found?_________________________________
39. What two things does an amoeba use pseudopodia for?
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
40. How is a food vacuole formed? ____________________________________________________
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41. What does the term mutualism mean? _______________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
42. - 43. What are the two uses for cilia?
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
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MATCHING
_____44. These are tiny, hairlike structures.
a. cilia
_____45. These have shells that look like glass ornaments.
b. radiolarians
_____46. This protist can live in the digestive tract
of vertebrates.
c. Giardia lambia
_____47. This controls the functions of a ciliates cell.
d. foraminiferans
_____48. These have snail-like shells.
e. macronucleus
49. Name two characteristics of spore-forming protists.
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
50. Slime molds use pseudopodia to eat bacteria and _____________________.
51. – 61. To help organize all this information, complete the table below.
Term
Definition
1.Parasite
2.
3.Consumer
Example
Giardia lamblia
makes its own food, usually by photosynthesis
slime mold
4.Flagella
5.Cilia
6.Pseudopodia
amoeba
7.Spore-forming
62. The spread of malaria depends on both human and mosquito hosts. Use this fact to think of a
way to stop the spread of malaria. ______________________________________________
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