3.3.36

Question 1

How many major types of nutrition are found among protists?

Answer 1

3

Question 2

Each division corresponds to what?

Answer 2

the 3 major groups of protists

Question 3

Define heterotrophs

Answer 3

organisms that obtain food from the environment

Question 4

What does the 1st type of nutrition involve?

Answer 4

It involves obtaining food actively by phagocytosis.

Question 5

What is phagocytosis equivalent to?

Answer 5

‘eating’ or the ingestion of food by larger multicellular organisms

Question 6

Where is this 1st nutrition found?

Answer 6

It’s found in protozoa

Question 7

What do protozoa use to eat their food?

Answer 7

Some have mouth-like structures and others use pseudopodia to engulf prey

Question 8

What is a typical food item for protozoa?

Answer 8

bacteria

Question 9

Protists are a mixed group of eukaryotic organisms that are fungi, plants, or animals. True or False?

Answer 9

False. They are fungi-LIKE, plant-LIKE, animal-LIKE. They aren’t those things, they are just very much like them so don’t forget the LIKE!

Question 10

How do algae get food?

Answer 10

They make it through photosynthesis

Question 11

Are algae, heterotrophs, autotrophs, chemoautotrophs, or photoautotrophs?

Answer 11

Algae are photoautotrophs

Question 12

Do algae make their own food?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

What enables algae to make food?

Answer 13

chloroplasts

Question 14

What protist category makes up plankton, seaweeds, and algae?

Answer 14

algae

Question 15

All algae are green. True or False? Why or why not?

Answer 15

False. All algae have chloroplasts but they aren’t all green. Many have other pigments as well such as yellow, brown, or red.

Question 16

what does photo mean?

Answer 16

light

Question 17

How do the few protists that live in extreme environments get food?

Answer 17

They make their own by using the energy obtained from chemical reactions (often ones involving sulfur)

Question 18

What is the nutrition called of protists living in extreme environments?

Answer 18

chemosynthesis

Question 19

Organisms that can make food via chemosynthesis are called what?

Answer 19

chemoautotrophs

Question 20

What are some examples of extreme environments where chemoautotrophs live?

Answer 20

deep sea vents w/ little to no light, little oxygen, and very high or low temperatures

Question 21

Some protists _____ their nutrients.

Answer 21

absorb

Question 22

Which type of protists are the protists that absorb their nutrients?

Answer 22

the fungus-like bacteria, or the slime-molds

Question 23

What type of protists are often decomposers that live in dead-like environments that require them to break down the food they need.

Answer 23

fungi-like protists

Question 24

Fungi-like protists live in what type of environments?

Answer 24

Dead-like environments

Question 25

Organisms that absorb food are considered ______trophs? Why?

Answer 25

heterotrophs, since the food comes from the environment

Question 26

How many major types of locomotion are found among protists?

Answer 26

3

Question 27

What are they 3 types of locomotion found in protists?

Answer 27

cilia, flagella, and pseudopodia

Question 28

What are cilia?

Answer 28

hair-like projections around the outside of the cell that beat in synchronized motion.

Question 29

What are flagella?

Answer 29

longer appendages, resembling tails, which move like whips to propel unicellular organisms through liquid media

Question 30

What specific protist uses pseudopodia? And for what environment?

Answer 30

amoebas (protozoa), to move through their aquatic environment.

Question 31

What specific form of protist is immobile

Answer 31

parasitic forms of protozoa

Question 32

immobile, that is, within the group _____

Answer 32

Apicomplexa