1. Kingdom
Protista

2. What are Protists?
Protists are single or many-celled organisms that live in moist or wet surroundings.
Some protists contain chlorophyll and make their own food, others don’t.
Protists are plant-like, animal-like, and fungus-like.

3. What are Algae?
Algae are plant-like protists that contain chlorophyll and can make their own food.
NOT all algae are GREEN!!!

4. Euglena Euglena have characteristics of plants and animals.
They contain chloroplasts which can produce carbohydrates.
When no sunlight is available, they consume other food.
They move using a whip-like tail called a FLAGELLA.

5. Euglena Diagrams

6. Diatoms
Diatoms are golden brown aglae that store food in the form of oil.
They reproduce in extremely large numbers and have a variety of shapes.

7. Spirogyra
Spirogyra is a chain-like algae that has spiral shaped chloroplasts.

8. Volvox Volvox is ball-shaped and lives in colonies.
The colony rolls through the water using flagella.

9. Animal-like Protists:
Flagellates: have flagella
Ciliates: have cilia
Pseudopods: have foot-like extensions

10. Ciliates
Ciliates move using short, threadlike structures that surround the body.
Example: Paramecium.

11. Pseudopods Pseudopod means “false foot.”
Pseudopods are foot-like extensions that the organism uses to move and trap food.
Example: Amoeba

12. Pond Water What can we identify?

13. Pond Water Lab Tomorrow
What do you think we will see?