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Objective – Observe and summarize information about protozoan.
Protist Graphic Organizer
Characteristics of Protozoans
Plant-Like
Animal-Like
Both
Food Source
Food Source
Food Source
Example(s)
Example(s)
Example(s)
Objective – Observe and summarize information about protozoan.
Protozoans (Protozoa/Protista)
 All are single-celled organisms.
 Found in water.
 Can be consumer or producer.
 Major types of protozoan.
 Amoeba
 Animal-like
 Is the simplest form of protozoan.
 Moves using pseudopods (False feet).
 Has no set shape.
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 Clear.
 Is a consumer.
 Eats algae, bacteria, other protozoan, dead plant or animal matter.
 Euglena
 Both animal- and plant-like
 Can be a producer
 Can also be a consumer.
 Moves using a whip-like
flagellum (flagella plural).
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 Paramecium
 Oval shaped.
 Translucent.
 Moves using cilia (hair-like structures around
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 Consumer.
 Eats algae, bacteria, other protozoan, dead plant or animal matter.
Objective – Observe and summarize information about protozoan.
 Spirogyra
 Simple plant.
 Producer.
 Free-floating (go-withthe-flow).
 Has no form of
movement. Only
moves with the
flow of the
water.
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