Name _________________________________ Class ______ Kingdoms Protista & Fungi WebQuest
Protist Website #1:
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_3.html
1. List and describe the 2 types of defense members of the Phylum Ciliophora have.
2. Define “red tide” according to figure 16.
3. What species causes one type of malaria and is the most widespread human parasite? The Phylum
Sarcodina (amoebas) contains how many species?
4. What are 2 other names for amoebic dysentery?
5. The Irish potato famine was a terrible disaster caused by a slime OR water mold (circle one).
6. What chemical is extracted from red algae that is added to pudding and ice creams?
Protist Website #2: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/x_smal1.html
Ciliates
8. What two things are cilia used for?
9. What two vacuoles are found in ciliates? What are their functions?
Sun animalcules and amoebas
10. How does an amoeba move?
11. How does an amoeba multiply (reproduce)?
12. What is another name for sun animalcule?
Desmids
13. What are desmids?
14. What is the only kind of water they can be found in?
15. List 2 functions of the mucilage some desmids secrete.
Diatoms
16. Diatoms have cell walls made of _____________ which are like houses of ___________.
17. Describe the two different groups of diatoms.
Flagellated Protozoa
18. What scientific name is given to the flagella?
19. The eyespot enables the protozoa to do what?
20. Why do flagellated protist live in the guts of termites?
Fungi Website 1: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/fungi.html
21. Name two ecological roles of fungi.
22. List three fungi that we eat as food
23. List 3 plant fungal diseases.
Click on Life History & Ecology
24. What two organisms make up mycorrhizae? Explain how each benefit from this relationship.
Fungi Website 2: http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=bio304
25. The types of _____________ in the soil determine the types of ________________ and
therefore the types of ____________________ that live in a biological community.
26. _______________________________ are scientists that specialize in the study of fungi.
27. Scientists believe they have only identified about __________________ of all fungi.
28. _________________ is the sugar found in the cell wall of fungi while ____________________
is found in the cell wall of plants.
29. List the four groups of fungi: ___________________, _________________________,
_________________________, and ________________________________
Fungi Website #3: http://ellerg.blogspot.com/2009/06/mind-blowing-mushrooms-10-unique.html
30. a) The Devil’s Cigar is the world’s _____________________________ fungi.
b) The Octopus stinkhorn smells like ___________________________________.
c) Fungi in the genus Mycena have 33 members that are known to be ____________________.
d) The fungus that bleeds red liquid is known as the __________________________________.
e) The popular name for the weird-looking mushrooms that resemble a human brain are
___________________________________________.