Protist Study Guide

PROTIST STUDY GUIDE

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1. Have you read the chapter on Protista?

2. Are you familiar with all the words and concepts on the Protist vocab sheet?

3. Review the Protist Crossword puzzle

4. Review and organize your class lecture notes and your notes from reading the chapter.

5. What are the "membership requirements" for kingdom Protista?

6. While some protists may be smarter than Flash, why is Flash NOT considered to be a protist?

7. What is a contractile vacuole and what is it’s purpose?

8. What protozoans use the following to move (for locomotion) and what kingdoms are they in?

• Cilia -
• Psuedopods -
• Flagella -

9. What is special about paramecium? What kingdom and phylum or group of protozoans do they belong to?

10. What do these parts of a cell do?

• Mitochondria -
• Vacuole -
• Cell wall -

11. What do polishes, flat paint, toothpaste and pool filtering material have in common?

12. What are ciliates? Which is the most well known?

13. What are pseudopods? Who uses them?

14. What are flagella? Which protozoan uses them?

15. What is giardia? What does it cause?

16. Remember to review X-Ray blog. Do you have good notes? Have you gone to the MCAS question site?

17. What is bioluminescense?

18. What are dinoflagellates? What do they cause? We spent a lot of time in class studying them. Why?

19. Protozoans give you what diseases? Do all protozoans cause disease?

20. What are antibiotics and what do they work against?

21. What sporozoan killed many people, also known as Malaria?

22. What group of protozoans are all parasitic?

23. What is the difference between procaryotic and eucaryotic cells? (by Rachael S)

24. What does eukaryotic mean? (by Rachael S)

24. What kingdons are all eucaryotic?

25. Do you know is you are an autotrophic or heterotrophic? What do these terms mean?

26. Are you pseudoprepared for this test? Let's hope NOT!

27. What types of life or organisms seem immune to the effects of the red tide?

28. Mr. Carrisson is:
a. an amoeba
b. a saracodine
c. something that pseudopods
d. an amoeba is a saracodine that uses psuedopods
e. a Twinkie and Almond Joy eating, Bassett Hound loving evil life science teacher

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X-Rays - Part of Protist Test

What

are

X-Rays?

Subject Web Sampler by Mr. Carrison – Gates Intermediate School

Check out the links below. Use them to answer the 5 questions found below.

• http://history.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/medicine-disease/who-discovered-x-ray



• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray



• http://cxpi.spme.monash.edu.au/xray_history.htm



• http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CURIE/marie.html



• http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/05_campaigns/campaigns_1.html



• http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/05_campaigns/campaigns_3.html

1. Who discovered and named x-rays?
   a. Albert Einstein
   b. Norma Jeane Mortenson
   c. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
   d. Madam Marie Curie
   e. George W. Bush
   



2. X-rays
   a. can be used for dental diagnosis
   b. are used in medical diagnosis and research
   c. come from natural sources
   d. can be man made
   e. at the airport can be used to detect weapons and other hazardous materials
   f. all of the above
   



3. Which of the following is true of Marie Curie?
   a. she was born in Poland
   b. earned American citizenship in 1899 but was born in England to 2 parents of German decent
   c. died in 1965 from pneumonia
   d. majored in golf in college and minored in ancient adolescent medieval Greek poetry
   e. was credited with the boiler (engine) design of large ship engines such as those used on the Titanic
   



4. Marie Curie and her husband
   a. conducted research on radiation
   b. discovered new elements
   c. received Nobel Peace Prizes for their scientific contributions to society
   d. all of the above
   e. none of the above
   f. only B and C
   



5. Marie Curie died from
   a. excessive science homework
   b. years of exposure to radioactive materials
   c. tuberculosis
   d. over exposure to O2
   e. a stroke caused from eating a diet rich in animal fats
   



6. A radiograph
   a. weighs 2.341 grams
   b. is a picture of sorts taken with nuclear gamma radiation
   c. is a picture of bones taken using x-rays
   d. measures radio waves usually in the AM and FM band width but can be used for other frequencies

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Study Guide for Ch 8 Viruses & Monerans

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Special Thanks Kathleen L
for submitting review questions
for this week's study guide!

1. Have you read ch 8 pages 206 to 227 in our textbook - green with school of fish on the cover?

2. Do you know the answers to all the questions on the two sided pink or green vocab sheet given out in class? This would be your BEST place to start studying for the test.

3. What are antibiotics used for?

4. How are antibiotics different from vaccines? Are they the same thing?

5. What organisms that we studied this week are very good at decomposing materials on earth. They are major players in many cycles such at the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycle.

6. List five diseases that bacteria cause? Can you also list 5 facts about bacteria in general?

7. Who was the man that found the cure for smallpox, and what did he have to observe to find the cure? He is the father or inventor of what?

8. What shapes can bacteria come in?
a. Round, triangular, and squared
b. Beagle-shaped and bone shaped
c. Rod shaped, spiral shaped, and round
d. Filamentous and rod shaped

9. For what types of pathogens do you get vaccines to prevent you from getting a sickness or disease?

10. What do members of the moneran kingdom NOT have that all members of the other 4 kingdoms DO have?

11. Nanometers are used to measure what type of organism?

12. How big is a nanometer?

13. What type of animal is responsible for spreading the Bubonic Plague?
a. Rat
b. Flea
c. Humans
d. Taylor K. and Mickey Mouse
e. Llamas

14. Meiosis is used for making what type of cells?
a. Gametes
b. Skin cells
c. Bacteria
d. Most all types of cells and tissues
e. Jail cells

15. What is the difference between a host and a parasite?

16. Cyanobacteria can make it's own food with the help of what organelle?

17. Why is cyanobacteria so important to the environment and well being of our planet?

18. Bacteria can be found where on our planet?

19. What's the name for any disease producing agent or organism?

20. This process of cell division helps repair skin by creating the exact same daughter cells as the parent cell.

21. If something has these two things, it's obviously living. Name them. (what is the definition of life)

22. What kingdoms are eukaryotic and what kingdoms are prokaryotic?

23. There are different ways a virus can get into a host.

24. How do viruses move? Legs, tail, flagellum, cilia, pseudopods or ???

25. Human bone, skin, nerve and all other cells are what type of cells?

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Classification Study Guide

Study Guide
for Friday's
Classification
Test

Mr. Carrison - Life Science - Gates Intermediate School - Scituate, MA

1. Can you name all seven taxa in our current classification system from largest group to smallest?
   
   
   
2. What kingdom(s) can make their own food or are known as autotrophs?
   
   
   
3. What if any kingdom(s) are Heterotrophic?
   
   
   
4. Can you define:
   Autotroph
   Heterotroph
   Eukaryote
   Prokaryote
   
   
   
5. Which kingdoms are eukaryotic?
   
   
   
6. Which kingdoms are prokaryotic?
   
   
   
7. List 4 facts about bacteria
   
   
   
8. List 4 facts about the taxa species
   
   
   
9. In a nut shell what is meiosis? Give 3 facts
   
   
   
10. Arrange in order from smallest to largest the following liquid metric units kl – l – ml
    
    
    
11. What are the differences between the animal kingdom and plant kingdom?
    
    
    
12. What is taxonomy?
    
    
    
13. A person who studies classification of life on earth for a living is called a _______ .
    
    
    
14. Is English the root language of our classification system?
    
    
    
15. Why is it used or why not?
    
    
    
16. If English is not used what language is used?
    
    
    
17. Which is the correct way to represent a scientific name of a domestic cat? Only 1 is correct!
    Felis Domestica
    Felis DOMESTICA
    Felis domestica
    felis domestica
    Felis Domestica
    Felis domestica
    FELIS DOMESTICA
    Felis domestica
    felis Domestica
    
    
    
18. What is an organelle?
    
    
    
19. What organelles do members of the Plant kingdom HAVE that members of the Animal kingdom do NOT have?
    
    
    
20. What is binomial nomenclature?
    
    
    
21. Who is John Ray and why is he mentioned in this week’s text book reading?
    
    
    
22. What do you know about C. Linnaeus? What did he contribute to taxonomy?
    
    
    
23. Can members of different genus belong in the same species?
    
    
    
24. Can members of different families belong in the same order?
    

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posted 3-7-2007 last updated 3-8-2007