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Name __________________________________

Date ___________ Period _________

Kingdom Protista – Study Guide

Directions: Answer the following questions. Review your answers and your vocabulary to study
for your quiz.

1. What Kingdom do zooflagellates belong to? Why are they included in this Kingdom?
__zooflagellates belong to Kingdom Protista because they are single-celled organisms that
contain a nucleus__

2. Which animallike protist moves by extending its cell membrane and cytoplasm? What is this
appendage called?
__Sarcodines (Amoeba) move by extending their pseudopods or “false feet”__

3. Protists that have small hairlike projections on the outside of their cells are
called __Ciliates__ .

4. The group of animallike protists in which all members are parasites are the
__Sporozoans__.

5. A long, thin, whip-like structure that propels Euglena is called the __flagella__.

6. The most widespread disease that sporozoans cause among humans is __malaria__.

7. Many toothpastes contain the ground up shells of plantlike protists called __diatoms__.

8. Red tides are caused by rapid reproduction of __dinoflagellates__ .

9. Describe a euglena __contains chloroplasts, an eyespot, and two flagella__.

10. What do Paramecium eat? __bacteria__

Fill in the blank.

11. What does paramecium use to move? __cilia__

12. What does Euglena use to make food? __sunlight,


chloroplasts__

13. What major contribution do plant like protists make to the Earth? __oxygen__

14. Where does an amoeba digest its food? __food vacuoles in it’s
cytoplasm__

15. Will a euglena move towards or away from bright light? __towards__
Use the diagram below to label the parts.

Write the word from the bank on the left


Food Vacuole 16. __cilia__
Cilia 17. __contractile vacuole__
Contractile Vacuole 18. __food vacuole__
Gullet 19. __oral groove__
Oral Groove 20. __gullet__
Nucleus 21. __nucleus__

22. Organisms that can make their own food are called __autotrophs__.

23. The green food-making structures found in plant like protists


are called __chloroplasts__.

24. An organism that lives on or in a host organism and harms


it is called a(n) __parasite__.

25. Sketch below an amoeba, labeling the psuedopod and nucleus.

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