The Kingdom Protista!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. An eyelike marking (7)
  2. 6. Parasitic or saprobic organisms living chiefly in fresh ___ or moist soil (9)
  3. 9. Multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds (10)
  4. 11. Requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment (13)
  5. 12. A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (9)
  6. 13. Plastid containing ___ and other pigments (11)
  7. 14. Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood (plural) (8)
  8. 16. Of or relating to organisms that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic (11)

Down

  1. 1. Marine ___ in which the chlorophyll is masked by a ___ or purplish pigment (8)
  2. 2. Temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion (9)
  3. 4. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)
  4. 5. Any member of the genus ___ (10)
  5. 7. Consisting of many cells (13)
  6. 8. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes (7)
  7. 10. Flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics (12)
  8. 15. Minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella (7)