Microorganisms

Question 1

What are some benefits of Good Bacteria?

Answer 1

1. It is used in dairy to make milk.
2. It kills the harmful bacteria in water.
3. Help your intestines break down food and kill harmful bacteria.
4. Kills bad bacteria in the soil and breaks down N2 so that plant can use it as nutrients.

Question 2

What are some benefits of Fungi?

Answer 2

1. Penicillin is a fungi used as antibiotic to kill bad bacteria.
2. Mushrooms are fungi, which are harvested as a food source.
3. Yeast is also a fungi, and is used to make bread.
4. Blue mold is used to flavor blue cheese.

Question 3

What are the benefits of Decomposers?

Answer 3

They break down waste as well as dead plant matter and animal matter to put it down into the ground as nutrients.

Question 4

What are microorganism that cause diseases called?

Answer 4

Pathogens

Question 5

Example of a virus

Answer 5

Covid, Ebola, HIV

Question 6

Example of bacteria

Answer 6

Salmonella, TB, Cholera

Question 7

Examples of protozoa

Answer 7

Malaria, Sleeping sickness, Red tide

Question 8

How do you prevent harmful microorganisms?

Answer 8

Wash you hands ; Sterilize objects ; Vaccines ;