Lesson 5 ·Class 9 · Five Kingdom Classification · Sort Lab
Kingdom Fungi
Absorbers, not producers.
Fungi never make their own food. Sort each example by how it gets it instead.
Sorted 0/7
All items sorted — check each bin.
Free play — sort every item into the bin it belongs in; each correct drop tells you why. Switch to when you're ready to test yourself.
Ask whether the source of food is dead, alive and harmed, or alive and benefiting.
What this lesson covers
What you do
- Fungal walls are made of chitin — the same material as an insect's exoskeleton, not a plant's cellulose.
Challenges to clear
- Fill the Symbiotic bin correctly.
- Sort every example.
- Fill the Saprophytic box — the fungi that feed on the dead.
The task
Fungi never make their own food. Sort each example by how it gets it instead.
What this lesson covers
- Saprophytic — From dead matter: Rhizopus growing on stale bread (It digests the dead bread externally and absorbs the products.); Mushrooms on a rotting log (Saprophytes are the recyclers that return nutrients to the soil.); Yeast in sugar solution (It lives on dead organic matter, fermenting the sugar.)
- Parasitic — From a living host: Puccinia, the rust that attacks wheat (It takes food from the living crop and damages the yield.); The fungus causing ringworm and athlete's foot (It feeds on living skin tissue.)
- Symbiotic — In partnership: A lichen on a rock (A fungus and an alga living together — the alga makes food, the fungus provides shelter and water.); Mycorrhiza on a plant root (The fungus improves the root's mineral uptake and receives sugars in return.)
Hint
Ask whether the source of food is dead, alive and harmed, or alive and benefiting.