What's the deal with mold?

Choose the statement about mold that is true.

• Mold is a type of plant.

• Mold is a type of animal.

• Mold is a living thing that is neither a plant nor an animal.

• Mold is a nonliving thing.

Where does mold grow?

• On food that has been left out for too long

• Behind walls and near windows

• On neither walls nor food

• Behind walls and on food

Which text feature is seen in the article?

• photograph

• illustration

• time line

• caption

Which of the following statements about mold are true.

• There are about one hundred different types of mold in existence.

• There are thousands of types of mold in existence.

• All mold looks white and fuzzy.

• Mold can come in a variety of colors, such as white, green, blue, and black.

In most cases, you don't want to eat mold because it could be harmful to your body. When is it okay to ingest mold.

• when it is in medicine

• when it is on a sandwich

• as a part of hard cheeses

• as blue cheese

What are mold spores?

• Scopulariopsis

• little mold cells that float around in the air

• mushrooms

• chemicals

What does fungus mean?

• dangerous; likely to cause harm

• poisonous

• decayed

• a type of organism that falls into the same group as mold, mushrooms, or toadstools

Define antibiotic.

• the body's overreaction to pollen, fur, or other substances

• thought about or showed curiosity about something

• a type of medicine that kills harmful bacteria in the body

• decayed

Which sentence from the text tells you how mold helps the natural environment.

• There is a special kind of mold that is used to make penicillin.

• It provides food for the other plants to grow.

• The mold is breaking down the food to the point of being rotten.

• Mold can grow in any part of the world, both inside or outside.

Which sentences describe how mold can be harmful to humans.

• It can release toxic fumes, like black mold.

• They can get very sick if they breathe in certain other types of mold.

• The spores grow by feeding off the bread.

• These are dangerous to smell.