Amoeba Feeding and Digestion Processes

Amoeba Feeding and Digestion Processes

Assessment

Interactive Video

Biology, Science

5th - 8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Emma Peterson

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The video explains how amoebas obtain and digest food. Amoebas use pseudopodia to capture food, forming a food vacuole where complex substances are broken down into simpler ones. These substances diffuse into the cytoplasm, and undigested material is expelled from the cell.

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does amoeba capture its food?

Using tentacles

Using flagella

Using cilia

Using pseudopodia

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is formed when amoeba's pseudopodia fuse over a food particle?

A chloroplast

A cell wall

A nucleus

A food vacuole

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happens to complex substances inside the food vacuole?

They are stored for later use

They are expelled immediately

They are broken down into simpler substances

They are converted into energy

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where do the simple substances go after being broken down in the food vacuole?

Outside the cell

Into the cytoplasm

Into the nucleus

Into the cell membrane

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happens to the undigested material in amoeba?

It is moved to the surface and expelled

It is stored in the vacuole

It is absorbed into the cytoplasm

It is converted into energy