Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
PROTIST WEBQUEST
Go to the website: http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/protists/entrance.htm
Part A: Click on the “Introduction to Protist” link and answer questions 1-6.
Introduction to Protists
1) What is a protist?
2) What types of environments do they typically inhabit?
3) Are bacteria and protists the same thing? Why or why not?
4) What is a prokaryote?
5) What is a eukaryote?
6) What has a more complicated structure: bacteria or protists?
Please use your text book section 5.5/ Protista PowerPoint Notes to fill in the table below
How do they
move?
Sarcodinia
Mastigophora
Ciliophora
Apicomplexa
Examples/AKA
Reproduction Important
Structures
Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
Part B: Click on the “Exhibition of Movies” link. You will be watching clips of Ameobas, Paramecium, Rotifers,
and Vorticella.
1) Scroll down and click on the Amoeba link 1 and then link 2. Describe the motion that you see:
2) Scroll down and find the Paramecium link. Watch and describe what you see:
3) Click on the Vorticella link. Describe what you see:
4) Click on the rotifer link and describe what you see:
Part C: You will need to travel to new websites to complete this part. Follow this link:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/protists/amoeba.shtml
Describe the following about Amoebas:
A. Anatomy:
B. Diet:
C. Locomotion:
D. Reproduction:
Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
Please label the simple Amoeba in the space below:
Part D: Please use the following link: http://101science.com/paramecium.htm to answer the questions below.
1) How big are paramecium?
2) What are they shaped like?
3) What do they use to move?
4) Describe the motion of paramecium through the water?
5) How many nuclei do they have?
Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
6) How do they reproduce?
Please use the following link: http://www.infovisual.info/02/004_en.html to find a diagram of the
paramecium.
Draw a diagram of a paramecium using the visual on the link and LABEL.
Part E: Go back to the Protist Park website and the Euglenids movie links.
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/protists/entrance.htm
Click on all 3 of the movies and describe the movement of all three. Compare and contrast the styles of the 3
Euglenids:
Part F: Please use the following link to examine flagellates further:
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ceb/Diagnosis/Vol3.htm
1) What is the defining characteristic of flagellates?
2) What advantages do flagellates have over amoebas?
3) Name 3 places in the human body flagellates may be found.
Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
Giardia lamblia (Giardia or “Beaver Fever”).
1) What type of protist causes Giardia?
2) Describe the sickness caused by this small parasite.
3) Would you expect to find flagellates in different environments than other protists because of their
flagella? Explain.
Please use this site to find the euglena model and draw and label the diagram:
http://biology.touchspin.com/images/euglena.diagram.B.jpg
Part G: Google the following protest disease. Use a Wikipedia website fill in the table and learn about
diseases caused by Protozoa
Protist Disease
Plasmodium vivax
Trypanosoma brucei
Trypanosoma cruzi
Entameba
Giardia
Cryptosporidium
Vector
Symptoms
Treatment
Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
Part H: Algae- Use the following site to find the information on algae
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookdiversity_3.html
Draw a picture of the following and LABEL parts:
Euglenophyta/Euglenoids
Pyrrophyta/Dinoflagellate
Rhodophyta/Red seaweed
Chlorophyta/Green Algae
Crysophyta/Diatoms
Phaeophyta/Brown Algae
Fill out the following table:
Creature
Important
Structures
Euglenophyta/
Euglenoids
Pyrrophyta/
Dinoflagellate
Rhodophyta/
Red seaweed
Chlorophyta/
Green Algae
Crysophyta/
Diatoms
Phaeophyta/
Brown Algae
Answer the following:
How do they
move?
Why are they
important?
How do they eat?
Name: ________________________________
Period:_________________
1. What is a volvox and explain what a volvox colony represents?
2. Does the Blue-Green Algae belong to the protist kingdom or bacteria kingdom?
3. List the uses we make of "algae", both in a positive as well as a negative sense.
4. List the evidence that links the chloroplast of red algae to cyanobacteria.
5. What are the cell walls of the diatom made of?
6. What’s the difference between a pinnate and a centric diatom?
7. Are diatoms freshwater, marine or both?
Go to the following website and answer the questions below
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookdiversity_3.html
1. What is a red tide and what causes it?
2. What are the ecologic effects of a red tide?
3. Carageenan is an emulsifying agent added to commercial ice creams. It is a product of which of the
groups of protists?