Protista Study Guide

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PROTIST STUDY GUIDE
by Mr. Carrison & Flash the Wonder Hound

1. Have you read the chapter on Protista? How are your notes?

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 -
Host -
Flagella -

9. What do you know about the paramecium? Where are they found?
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? Do Flash and Ms. Sabonis use - have them???

14. What are flagella? Which protozoan uses them?

15. What is giardia? What does it cause? How do you get it???

16. Have you gone to the MCAS question site?

17. What is bioluminescence?

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?

24. What does eukaryotic mean? What kingdoms are all eucaryotic?

25. Do you know is you are an autotrophic or heterotrophic? What do these terms mean?
What are the following (auto or hetero)
* Paramecium
* Bailey & The Tpyo Police
* Euglena
* Algae
* True Animals
* Fungi

26. Are you pseudo-prepared 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. Carrison is: (question by one of last year's students)
a. an amoeba
b. a saracodine
c. organism that uses pseudopods
d. a Twinkie and Almond Joy eating, Basset Hound loving evil life science teacher (Hey! I heard that!!!) who is also a multi-cellular hetertrophic organism.

29. An amoeba is a saracodine that uses psuedopodse. (true or false)

30. Are all dinoflagellates only heterotrophic?

31. Is a euglena autotrophic or heterotrophic?

30. Algae is heterotrophic (true or false)

31. Can you draw one a picture of each of the 3 categories of protozoans that can move on their own???

32. I remember the 4 steps of the S/Method.......... do you?

33. Can you list 5 facts about the "red tide" that affects Scituate waters in the summer months and Florida?

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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 this week's double sided 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. Emily H. and Mickey Mouse
e. Llamas
f. Tiki and his gang

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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