7.E.1.1 | Protists

Question 1

Paramecium

Answer 1

The most complex and specialised of protists. Moves and eats using cilia.

Question 2

Cilia

Answer 2

Hair-like structures that extend from the surface of certain protists that help them move and eat.

Question 3

Protist

Answer 3

A unicellular organism witth a nucleus.

Question 4

Flagellum (pl. flagella)

Answer 4

A long, thin, tail-like structure that enables many protozoa to move and swim.

Question 5

Amoeba

Answer 5

A unicellular protist. Moves and eats using pseudopods.

Question 6

Autotroph

Answer 6

An organism that produces it’s own food.

Question 7

Heterotroph

Answer 7

An organism that does not make it’s own food.

Question 8

Chlorophyll

Answer 8

A green pigment that absorbs sunlight, allowing an organism to preform photosynthesis.

Question 9

Volvox

Answer 9

A colony of individual alga cells working together. Individual cells each have 2 flagella and eat primarily through photosynthesis.

Question 10

Euglena

Answer 10

A type of protist that is both plant- and animal-like. Moves using flagellum and either makes it’s own food or eats outside organisms. Lacks cell walls.

Question 11

Red Eyespot

Answer 11

A structure in Euglena and some Volvox that detects and guides the oganim towards light.

Question 12

Pseuopods

Answer 12

A temporary projection of cytoplasm that helps certain protists eat and move.