Protists Webquest
Directions: Y ou are to navigate
around http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html to find out the
answers to the following tasks. You will find the answers to your tasks by clicking the links within the groups. For
example: If you are trying to find out how flagellates move, you have to first click on the group Protozoa and then choose
the F
lagellated protozoa link. Careful not to get sucked into the jaws of the rotifers!!!!!!!!
Task I *virtual pond dip
Visit the virtual pond dip at
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/index.html
List all species in the jar that are in the Protoctista (Protist) and Animal Kingdoms.
Protist kingdom:
ANS: Spirogyra, Euglena, Actinosphaerium, Stentor, Paramecium, Vorticella, Volvox, Diatoms, Desmid, Amoeba
Animal kingdom:
ANS: Hydra, Daphnia, Cyclops, Cypris, Rotifers
Task II *protozoa
Click on P
rotozoa, and draw a picture of the following Protozoa (use insert->drawing->new):
Flagellate Amoeba Heliozoan Ciliate (paramecium)
Fill out the following table:
Creature How do they eat? How do they move?
Flagellates ANS: Using photosynthesis, flagellates ANS: They use a long extension called a
turn light into energy undulipodium to move around
Amoeba ANS: Amoebas engulf their food in ANS:They morph their shape using cytoplasm
different ways using cytoplasm movement and flow over surfaces
movement
Heliozoans ANS: Heliozoa capture prey using long ANS: They can also move with their axopodia, but
stiff projections of cytoplasm called not very well
axopodia, which then transport the
prey towards the cell to be eaten
Ciliates (paramecium) ANS: Using cilia, ciliates can propel ANS: Also using cilia movement, ciliates drag their
themselves through the water at fast prey down their gullet
speeds
Flagellates
● How does the Dinobryon eat?
ANS: Dinobryon can conduct photosynthesis using its
chloroplasts, but it can also consume food like a heterotroph
● What helps termites digest wood?
ANS: Flagellated protists in the guts of termites
Amoeba
● What is a pseudopod?
ANS: Pseudopods are false feet that amoebas form using cytoplasm movement and use to move
Heliozoans
● What separates a Heliozoan from other amoebas?
ANS: Heliozoans have long, siff projections of cytoplasm call axopodia that look like rays of sun under a
microscope
Ciliates
● What is a food vacuole?
ANS: An organelle used to transport food through the cell
● What are contractile vacuoles
ANS: An organelle used to regulate water in the cell
● What do nuclei contain?
ANS: Genetic material/information
Task III *Algae
Click on A
lgae, and draw a picture of the following (use insert->drawing->new):
Euglenoid Dinoflagellate Green Algae Blue-Green Algae
Desmid Diatom Pond Scum Red Algae
Fill out the following table:
Creature How do they eat? How do they move?
Euglenoids ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: Attracted to light
Dinoflagellate ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: Using their two flagella to propel them
Green Algae ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: Using flagella
Blue-Green Algae ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: Flagella
Diatoms ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: Glide along surfaces using their raphe
Desmids ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: By secreting a substance desmids can
move towards or away from light
Pond scum ANS: Photosynthesis ANS: Does not move on its own
Euglenoids
● What’s the deal? Is this a protozoan or algae?
ANS: Euglenoids are algae
Green Algae
● What is a Volvox and explain what a Volvox colony represents?
ANS: Volvox is a type of algae which is considered to be very beautiful. A volvox colony is a representation of
asexual reproduction.
Blue-Green Algae
● Do the Blue-Green Algae belong to the Protist kingdom or bacteria kingdom?
ANS: Blue-green algae have been classified as bacteria
Diatoms
● What are the cell walls of the diatom made of?
ANS: Silica
● What’s the difference between a pennate and a centric diatom?
ANS: Pennate diatoms are bilaterally symmetric while centric
diatoms are radially symmetric
● Are diatoms freshwater, marine or both?
ANS: Diatoms can live in both fresh and salt water
Desmids
● Are Desmids freshwater, marine or both?
ANS: Desmids are mainly freshwater, but they have been found in marine habitats
Pond scum
● List the ways spirogyra can reproduce
ANS: Sexually and asexually or vegetatively
