Protists

Vocabulary

100

The euglena use this long whip-like structure for movement.

What is the flagellum?

200

This structure helps protists to store and digest food.

What is the food vacuole?

300

This structure is found in certain protists like the euglena, ameba and paramecium to get rid of excess water and prevent the cell from exploding.

What is the contractile vacuole?

400

The ameba can change its shape because it has a very thin and flexible structure called this.

What is the cell membrane?

500

Protists need a place to collect and store excess water. What is this place called?

What is a contractile vacuole

All Protists

100

Unicellular means made up of _____ cell.

What is one?

200

All protists live in this type of habitat.- Wet or dry?

What are wet habitats?

300

This protist has pseudopods to move and feed.

What is the ameba?

400

This protist has an eyespot to detect light.

What is the euglena or the volvox?

500

True or false: single celled organisms can complete all of life's functions within one cell.

What is true?

Plant-like Protists

100

Plant-like protists are similar to plants because they make their own food, meaning they are this.

What is autotrophic or an autotroph?

200

True or false: plant like protists can make their own energy from sunlight.

What is true?

300

This plant-like protist is unique in that it is both autotrophic and heterotrophic.

What is the euglena?

400

This is a plant-like protist lives in colonies.

What is the volvox?

500

This structure found in plant-like protists traps sunlight. It is necessary to capture sunlight.

What are chloroplasts?

Animal-like Protists

100

This animal-like protist engulfs its food with psuedopods.

What is an amoeba?

200

This animal-like protist moves by using hair-like projections called cilia.

What is a paramecium?

300

This animal-like protist can change its shape because of its thin cell membrane.

What is the amoeba?

400

This animal-like protist sweeps its food into its oral groove using its cilia.

What is the paramecium?

500

This is a trait that animal-like protists do NOT share with animals.

What is unicellular? Animal-like protists are unicellular while animals are multicellular.

Animal or Plant like?

100

The ameba and paramecium are part of this protist group.

What are animal-like protists?

200

This protist group has the ability to move using pseudopods, cilia or flagella.

What are animal-like protists?

300

This protist group is autotrophic and has chloroplasts.

What are plant-like protists?

400

This protist can be considered both animal-like and plant like.

What are euglena?

500

This protist group is heterotrophic and unicellular.

What is animal-like protists?