Protists & Fungi

Which type of pathogen is single-celled and cannot be classified as an animal, plant, or fungi?

• Bacteria

• Viruses

• Fungi

• Protists

Which type of pathogen likes to grow in dark, warm, moist areas and is responsible for ringworm?

• Bacteria

• Viruses

• Fungi

• Protists

If you wanted to find a colony of protists, where might you look?

• Forest

• Desert

• Mountain

• Pond

Fungi are __________.

• Eukaryotes

• Heterotrophs

• Consumers

• All of the above

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Athlete's foot is an example of this pathogen

• Bacteria
• Virus
• Fungus
• Protozoan

Fungi are important to an ecosystem because they are

• Producers

• Regulators

• Decomposers

• Controllers

Protists are important to an ecosystem because they

• make oxygen

• support food chains

• recycle nutrients

• all of the above

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Which is NOT a way that all protists are similar?

• Live in wet/moist environments

• Eukaryotic

• Use spores to reproduce

• None of the above

The symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae is called ______.

• Lichen

• Mychorrizae

• Algae

• Symbiosis

Small hair-like projections on the cell membrane used to sweep food into mouth and move around

• cilia
• flagellum
• pseudopod
• silly bandz

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