Bacteria Webquest!
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Bacteria Cells: http://www.eurekascience.com/ICanDoThat/bacteria_cells.htm
1. How is bacteria a part of recycling and biodegrading?
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2. What are the five basic parts of bacteria? ________________________________________
3. Draw the basic appearance of all bacteria:
Bacteria and Viruses:
1. How many cells do bacteria have? ____________________
2. Describe and draw an example of the three shapes of bacteria:
a. Cocci: ____________________
b. Bacilli: ____________________
c. Spirilla: ____________________
3. What are two ways bacteria can get food? ________________________________________
4. What is the process called when bacteria divide into two cells? ____________________
5. Watch the animation of the process and draw the steps it goes through as it divides.
Bacteria Divide and Multiply: http://www.cellsalive.com/ecoli.htm
1. How long would it take for 2 bacteria cells to divide and turn into 4 bacteria cells? __________
2. How come our planet is not covered with bacteria? ___________________________________
Bacterial Motility:
What are three ways bacteria can move? ________________________________________
1. Describe how Rhodospirillum rubrum bacteria move.
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2. Describe how Chromatium bacteria move.
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3. Describe how Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria bacteria move.
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1. Compare Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
2. What kind of substances do bacteria consume to get energy?
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3. What is the process of making energy from food using oxygen? ____________________
Kingdom Archaebacteria and Eubacteria:
1. What kingdom is most bacteria a part of? ____________________
2. Describe the four groups of bacteria in the Eubacteria Kingdom:
a. Phylum Cyanobacteria: ________________________________________
b. Phylum Spirochetes: __________________________________________
c. Phylum Gram-Positive: ________________________________________
d. Phylum Proteobacteria: ________________________________________
3. What are chemoautotrophs? _____________________________________________________
4. What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria? ________________________________________
5. What does aerobic bacteria need? ________________________________________
6. What does anaerobic bacteria need? ________________________________________
7. Do anaerobic bacteria use fermentation or respiration? ____________________
8. Do aerobic bacteria use fermentation or respiration? ____________________
9. What are the four sources of nutrition for bacteria?
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General Properties of Archaebacteria:
1. What are the three differences between archaebacteria and other bacteria?
a. ____________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________
Biological Foundations
1. What does “archaebacteria” mean? ________________________________
2. Where do you find archaebacteria? Give 3 specific locations.
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
3. What kind of cells do archaebacteria have? ____________________
4. What are the four major characteristics of Kingdom Archaebacteria?
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
d. ________________________________________
5. Draw what archaebacteria look like.
1. Describe the following groups of bacteria that are found in the three major types:
a. Methanogens ___________________________________________________________
b. Halophiles ____________________________________________________________
c. Thermophiles ___________________________________________________________
2. Who are eukaryotes more closely related to, archaea or eubacteria? ____________________
3. What do archaea eat? ___________________________________________________________
If you have time left, explore the following webpages:
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih2/oral-health/guide/pdfs/masters-htmllesson4/masters-lesson4.htm
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/
http://www.livescience.com/bacteria/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0010/bacteria/index.html
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/WWW/Video/pneumo.html