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7th Grade
03/29/2012

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Animal like protists are known as...
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protozoans
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What contains the green pigment chlorophyll?
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protists
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Do plantlike protist make their own food?
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yes
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How does the Amoeba move?
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pseudopods
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How does the Paramecium move?
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cilia
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How does the Euglena move?
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flagella
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What kingdom does the amoeba, paramecium, and euglena belong to?
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protists
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Most slime molds are found on decaying logs or dead leaves in what kind of environments?
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moist, cool, and shady
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The parasite that causes malaria is a type of what?
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protozoan
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Dinoflagellates are one-celled algae with how many flagella?
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2
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What kind of reproduction in protists requires only one organism?
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asexual
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Animal-like protists are grouped by how the do what?
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move
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Algae are important to the environment because they produce what?
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oxygen
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What produced by downy mildews weaken the plants they live on?
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spores
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In the absence of light, what can eat bacteria?
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euglenoids
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What uses threadlike cilia to move quickly in any direction
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paramecium
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All plantlike protists contain what?
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chlorophyll
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Algae that are golden-brown and secrete glasslike boxes around themselves are called what?
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diatoms
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Who reproduces asexually?
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one-celled protists usually
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Amobeas use extensions of cytoplasm called pseudopods to do what?
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trap food particles and to move
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What forms sediments are considered an indicatior species?
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ceratin protozoans
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What are some examples fo funguslike protists?
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slime molds, water molds, and downy mildews
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Where do all protists live?
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in wet/damp surroundings
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