6Th Grade Science Chapter 4

Front 1

One celled or many celled organisms that can be plantlike, animal like, or fungus like and lives in moist or wet surroundings

Back 1

Protist

Front 2

Plantlike protists that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis

Back 2

Algae

Front 3

Long, thin, whiplike structure of some protists that helps them move through moist or wet surroundings

Back 3

Flagellum

Front 4

One-celled, animal-like protist that can live in water, soil and living or dead organisms

Back 4

Protozoan

Front 5

Short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane of a ciliate and allow the organism to move quickly

Back 5

Cilia

Front 6

temporary cytoplasmic extensions used by some protists to move about and trap food

Back 6

Pseudopod

Front 7

mass of many-celled, threadlike tubes forming the body of a fungus

Back 7

hyphae

Front 8

organism that feeds on dead or decying tissures of other organisms

Back 8

saprophyte

Front 9

waterproof reproductive cell of a fungus that can grow into a new organism

Back 9

spore

Front 10

club-shaped, reproductive structure in which club fungi produce spores

Back 10

basidium

Front 11

saclike, spore-producing structure of sac fungi

Back 11

ascus

Front 12

form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically-identical organism forms on the side of its parent

Back 12

budding

Front 13

round spore case of a zygote fungus

Back 13

sporangium

Front 14

organism made up of a fungus and green alga or cyanobacterium

Back 14

lichen

Front 15

network of hyphae and plant roots that helps plants absorb water and minerals from soil

Back 15

mycorrhizae