Chapter 21

Question 1

A dormant cell with a resistance outer covering

Answer 1

Cyst

Question 2

________ serve as food for heterotrophic protists and animals

Answer 2

Plankton

Question 3

Example of a colonial green algae

Answer 3

Volvox

Question 4

What caused the Irish potato famine?

Answer 4

Water molds

Question 5

What causes “red tide”?

Answer 5

Dinoflagellates

Question 6

Example of a ciliate

Answer 6

Paramecium

Question 7

What causes malaria?

Answer 7

Plasmodium vivax

Question 8

What is the economic importance of red algae?

Answer 8

Produces agar

Question 9

Giardia lamblia is transmitted through ________.

Answer 9

Contaminated water

Question 10

Trypanosoma brucei, which is the cause of African sleeping sickness, is in what group ?

Answer 10

Kinetopladstids

Question 11

Rhizarians are comprised of _______ and ________.

Answer 11

Foraminiferans and radiolarians

Question 12

What helps make up the white cliffs of Dover?

Answer 12

Test of foraminiferans (calcium carbonate)

Question 13

Algae that help make up the coral reef

Answer 13

Coralline algae (red algae)