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Mushrooms

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Fungi obtain water and nutrients through hyphae.  What are hyphae?
a)
Hair-like structures to gather food in water environments
b)
Structures that help fungi to gather light.
c)
Structures that produce spores.
d)
Fibrous strands that will grow toward food or water.
2.
A collective mass of hyphae are referred to as ------------
a)
Parasitic
b)
Fruiting
c)
Mycelium
d)
Spores
3.
Which describes fungi that are symbiotic in obtaining energy?
a)
Absorbing energy from dead or decaying organic matter
b)
Feeding on organisms in a way that benefits the host organism
c)
Using light to produce its own food.
d)
Capturing organisms and ingesting it. 
4.
What terms describes protists and fungi that gain their energy by feeding off dead and decaying organic matter?
a)
decomposers
b)
heterotrophs
c)
autotrophs
d)
symbiotic
5.
The cells walls in fungi are made of a material called _________
a)
cellulose
b)
fibers
c)
hyphae
d)
chitin
6.

Why isn't a fungi considered a plant?

a)

It doesn't have leaves.

b)

It doesn't have chlorophyll.

c)

They don't like it.

d)

You can't eat it.

7.
Identify the image.
a)
Lichen
b)
Mushroom
c)
Puffball
d)
Rust
8.
Identify the image.
a)
Lichen
b)
Mushroom
c)
Puffball
d)
Rust
9.
An organism that cannot make its own food is called  . . . 
a)
autotrophic
b)
chemosynthetic
c)
heterotrophic
d)
photosynthetic
10.
Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, and Puffballs are . . . 
a)
Club Fungi
b)
Imperfect Fungi
c)
Sac Fungi
d)
Zygote Fungi
11.
The word basidium means
a)
sac
b)
club
c)
zygote
d)
bat
12.
The part of the mushroom one can see above ground is the
a)
basidium
b)
flower
c)
sapling
d)
fruiting body
13.
This part of the mushroom contains the reproductive structure
a)
gill
b)
stipe
c)
mycelium
d)
annulus
14.
The phylum Basidiomycota refers to the 
a)
Sac Fungi
b)
Zygote Fungi
c)
Club Fungi
d)
Poisonous Fungi
15.
Basidiomycetes produce
a)
zygospores
b)
basidiospores
c)
ascospores
d)
mariospores
16.
A plant stem has the same structure as a stipe.
a)
true
b)
false
17.
Underground hyphae are called
a)
roots
b)
fibers
c)
mycelia
d)
mycota
18.
Fairy rings are produced by these fruiting bodies 
a)
sporangia
b)
mycelia
c)
zygotes
d)
mushrooms
19.
White, Portabella, Cremini, Chanterelles are all examples of 
a)
poisonous mushrooms
b)
edible mushrooms
c)
water mushrooms
d)
types of disease-causing mushrooms
20.
The reproductive cells of fungi are called:
a)
pollen
b)
seeds
c)
spores
d)
mold