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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