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8TH GRADE CHAPTER 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the protist?

a)

living thing

b)

virus

c)

bacterium

d)

animal

2.

What is a Eukaryote?

4 lines
3.

What is a similarity between plants and some protists?

4 lines
4.
What is the name of an organism that cannot produce its own food and must get it from another source?
a)
prokaryotic
b)
eukaryotic
c)
autotroph
d)
heterotroph
5.

Part of a protist that detects light and found on Euglena and Volvox:

a)

Contractile Vacuole

b)

Chloroplasts

c)

Flagella

d)

Eyespot

6.

unicellular, eukaryotic organism that feeds and moves using pseudopods

a)

Amoeba

b)

Euglena

c)

Paramecium

d)

Volvox

7.

Which organelle do organisms that photosynthesize have?

a)

mitochondria

b)

nucleus

c)

chloroplast

d)

ribosome

8.

All fungi are

a)

eukaryotes and autotrophic

b)

prokaryotes and autotrophs

c)

eukaryotes and heterotrophic

d)

prokaryotes and heterotrophic

9.

What does an amoeba use to move and to eat?

a)

flagellum

b)

pseudopod

c)

cilia

d)

a whip-like tail

10.

Which of the following statements best describes a fungus?

a)

usually a multicellular, but sometimes a unicellular heterotrophic organism that cannot move from place to place.

b)

a unicellular heterotrophic organism that can move from place to place

c)

a multicelluar heterotrophic organism that can move from place to place

d)

a multicellular or unicellular autotrophic organism that cannot move

11.

A mass of underground hyphae growing together from several fungi is known as a _________________.

a)

fruiting body

b)

protist

c)

mycelium

d)

root

12.

Almost all fungi are:

a)

autotrophs

b)

unicellular

c)

multicellular

d)

parasitic

13.

Which of the following are examples of fungi?

a)

bread mold

b)

pollen

c)

yeast

d)

mushrooms

14.

Alan noticed that his foot itched between his toes after coming home from the gym. He now believes he may have contracted athlete’s foot. What type of pathogen most likely caused this possible infection of his foot?

a)

bacterium

b)

fungus

c)

virus

15.
Most fungi reproduce by using . . . 
a)
Budding
b)
Eggs
c)
Spores
d)
Zoanthropy