Objective – I can explain characteristics of protozoans; I can define and use unit vocabulary correctly.
Name ______
Protozoan (Protist) Study Guide Review Sheet
I can…
_____ identify characteristics of protozoans (protists).
_____identify diseases caused by protists.
_____identify characteristics of algae.
_____define and use protist vocabularycorrectly.
I. I can identify characteristics of protozoans (protists).
- Protozoans are ______organisms.
- Almost all protists live in ______.
- They can be consumers or producers.
- ______– must find and eat food.
- ______– makes its own food;
- producers are green.
- Three examples of protists.
- ______ (protist moves using
- pseudopods)
- ______
- ______protozoan
- ______(consumes food)
- Has no shape
- Shape changes when it moves
- Clear
- Eats…
- algae
- bacteria
- other protozoans
- dead plant/animal matter
- Moves using ______(false feet)
- ______(protist moves using a ______ [flagella plural])
- ______
- ______
- ______(produces its food)
- Can also be a consumer if not enough food is available
- Shape changes when it moves
- Green
- If necessary, it will eat…
- other protozoans
- Moves using a ______(whip-like tail)
- ______(protist moves using cilia)
- ______
- ______
- ______(consumes food)
- Clear
- Eats…
- algae
- bacteria
- other protozoans
- Moves using ______hair-like extensions that surround the body
- II. I can identify diseases caused by protists.
- Some protists can make you sick.
- ______
- What is giardiasis?
- It is a diarrheal illness caused by a ______
- (Giardia lamblia), that lives in the ______of people and animals.
- How do I get giardiasis?
- It is passed in the ______of an infected person or animal.
- Giardia can be spread by…
- putting something in your ______or accidentally ______something that has come in contact with the ______of a person or animal infected with Giardia
- What are the symptoms of giardiasis?
- ______
- ______
- ______
- Treatment
- Use of special antibiotics.
- ______
- Amebiasis is a disease caused by ______
- How do I get amebiasis?
- You can get amebiasis by…
- putting anything into your mouth that has touched the ______of a person who is infected the ______
- ______something, such as ______, that is contaminated with the ______
- ______to your mouth cysts (eggs) picked up from surfaces that are contaminated with the ______
- .
- What are the symptoms of amebiasis?
- ______
- ______
- ______
- Treatment
- ______
- III. I can identify characteristics of algae.
- ______– Plant-like Protists that live in water and contain chlorophyll. They produce oxygen and their own food.
- ______– A living thing, like a green plant, that makes its food from simple substances and sunlight [plant-like].
- Characteristics
- ______protists
- Primarily ______
- Can also be ______
- Produce ______of the oxygen we breathe.
- Primary source for organisms living in water.
- Can’t move
- Free-floating (go-with-the-flow).
- Range from single-cell to 100 meters long.
- Live in water.
- Benefits of Algae
- The most important thing algae do is ______
- Algae has other uses
- Used in ______
- Used to make ______
- Help produce ______
- Identify possible ______
- Food production.
- ______
- ______
- Primarily used as a ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
- IV. I can define and use protist vocabulary correctly.
- Protist Unit Vocabulary Puzzle
Across
2. A single celled-animal-like organism that often lives in ponds.
5. Plant like protists that live in water and contain chlorophyll; algae produce oxygen and their own food.
6. Hair like; beat back-and-forth to move a protist. Paramecium example.
8. A living thing that can only be seen with the aid of magnification
Down
1. A tail which beats back-and-forth to move bacteria or a Euglena.
3. A living thing, like a green plant, that makes its food from simple substances and sunlight.
4. False foot; used by amoeba to move
6. A living thing which must find and eat the food.
7. Any living thing.
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