Name: ______
Unit 3: Kingdom Fungi Study Guide
Matching:
1. a kingdom of complex, unicellular or multi-cellular eukaryotic a. parasitism
organisms that obtain food by breaking down other substances in
their environment and absorbing their nutrients b. host
2. a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while c. fungi
the other is harmed
d. symbiosis
3. an organism on which a parasite lives
4. a close, long-term association between two or more species
Multiple Choice:
5. Fungi are:
a. consumers
b. decomposers
c. heterotrophic
d. all of the above
6. Fungi are:
a. eukaryotic
b. prokaryotic
c. morkaryotic
d. none of the above
7. Fungi reproduce:
a. sexually
b. asexually
c. all of the above
8. Maggie is looking at a unknown specimen under a microscope. She is trying to determine if the specimen could
be a fungi. The presence of what organelle would ELIMINATE this possibility of this actually being a fungi…
a. nucleus
b. mitochondria
c. cell membrane
d. chloroplast
9. The fungi kingdom would contain which organisms:
a. mold, mushrooms, yeast
b. euglena, paramecium, volvox
c. fish, birds, reptiles
d. cocci, bacilla, spirilla
10. Since a fungus can’t move around your yard to get the food it needs to survive – how does it get nutrients:
a. decomposing
b. diffusion
c. osmosis
d. all of the above
11. What is responsible for the nutrients a fungus needs being able to actually get into the cells?
a. cell wall
b. cell membrane
c. all of the above
d. none of the above
12. What would happen if there were no fungi or bacteria on Earth?
a. Earth would be buried in waste
b. plants would grow to excessive heights
c. human population would increase
d. there would be no diseases
13. Fungi
a. are producers
b. cannot eat or engulf food
c. are found only in the soil
d. are primarily single-celled
14. A lichen
a. is a parasite
b. is made up of an alga and a fungus that live intertwined
c. can only live where there is plenty of water
d. is a consumer
15. The series of changes that occurs after a disturbance in an existing ecosystem with soil is called
a. primary succession
b. secondary succession
c. disturbance succession
d. pioneer succession
Fill in the Blank:
16. A symbiotic relationship exists between a specific type of fungus and a Dutch Elm tree. This fungus causes thousands
of elm trees to die each year. In this symbiotic relationship, the fungus is a ______;
while the Dutch Elm tree is the ______.
17. Complex organisms, like a fungus, probably came from ancient fungus-like protists through a process known as ______.
18. Fungi can be ______or simple, multi-cellular organisms.
19. A tapeworm living in a 6th grade students intestines.
20. The Escherichia coli that live in your intestine and help break down food are an example of which type of interaction? ______
21. Which term describes the interaction in which one organism harms or kills another?
22. When a flea is living on a dog, the dog is the ______.
23. Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are the three types of ______.
24. A hawk building its nest on an arm of a saguaro cactus is and example of ______.
25. The type of succession that occurs in an area where an ecosystem has been disturbed, but where soil and organisms still exist,
is called ______succession.
Short Answer:
26. Explain in detail what life would be like on earth if there were no bacteria or fungus (what do these two organisms have
in common – and specifically what would happen if they no longer existed).
Classify each example below commensalism, parasitism, mutualism.
27. Head lice living on a human scalp ______
28. The remora hitching a ride on a shark ______
29. The lichen – a close relationship of a fungus and an alga that benefits both. ______
30. (+,+)
31. (+,0)
32. (+,-)
Label the mushroom: