Protists
Mostly microscopic, unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that are not animals, plants, or fungi.
What are protists?
Cannot make their own food and have cell walls made of chitin.
What is fungi?
Tiny organisms that float near the ocean’s surface.
What is plankton?
TRUE OR FALSE:
Fungi are producers.
What is false?
Protists move using ____.
What is cilia, flagella, or pseudopods?
Fungi obtain energy through…
What is symbiotic relationships with plant roots or algae?
Imperfect fungus
What is a fungus that only reproduces only sexually?
All protist are _____.
What is eukaryotes?
Protists get their energy by…
What is consuming other organisms or food particles or by making their own food.
The type of fungus that can reproduce with another fungus (sexually) and by itself (asexually).
A bulge of cytoplasm that some cells use an an anchor to pull themselves forward.
What is pseudopod?
What role do protist play in the environment?
What is serving as food for other organisms, providing oxygen though photosynthesis, and acting as agents of disease?
Classifying protist has proved to be a difficult task because…
What is that there is a large number of species that often have very different characteristics?
The vital role of fungi is…
What is to help recycle organic matter, obtain nutrients for plants, provide food and medicine for humans, and cause disease in plants, humans and animals.
Symbiosis
What is a relationship in which two organisms interact frequently over a long period of time, often living together.
The name of a fungus that produces spores in tiny sac-shaped structures.
What is a sac fungus?
What would happen if protist were removed from the food chain?
What is that sea life would have no source of food and would die out?
Why do plants from symbiotic relationships with fungi?
Fungi are able to absorb nutrients from soil that plants are otherwise unable to obtain.
A fungus and an alga intertwined together so that they appear as a single organisms.
What is lichen?
How do fungi demonstrate the wisdom of God in providing for His creation?
Fungi serve as decomposers, recycling nutrients back into the environment. If we did not have them, the nutrients in dead organic matter would not be available to other organisms.