Protist Study Guide

PROTIST STUDY GUIDE

This week's study guide is
brought to you by the efforts of:

Diana M
Megghan R

Picture is from early last summer. We are on Hawk Mt. overlooking Harrison, Brigton and Naples Maine. Long Lake is just out of view to the left. There is a cliff at my back!

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

(Hey! I heard that!!!)

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