“How mold grows”
10th grade
Mr.Tripp Sanders
February 3rd, 2018
Purpose The goal of my project is to show everyone how mold grows. Mold grows everywhere. You have probably seen mold a lot. You have seen it mostly on bread and in drinks that have set a long time.
Hypothesis Mold is going to grow on the one I sprayed with water because the one without the water is going to take longer to mold.
Materials
Ziplock bag
2 pieces of bread
Spray bottle
Water
Warm areas
Moist air
Review of literature Mold is a fungi that can be found all over the place. Mold grows inside and also grows outside. Inside it grows on bread and in the shower and outside it grows under rocks and in moist areas. Mold can affect your …show more content…
It is helpful to humans in many ways. Mold breaks down dead substances. We eat mold in mushrooms. Cheese is molding. Penicillin has mold in it, many people take penicillin when they are sick. Mold can be harmful to livestock it can grow in the corn and cause parasites. The common types of mold that grow in your home can be aspergillus, cladosporium, and black mold. Aspergillus can be found in food and they are also found in your air conditioning systems. Mold grows outside of your house. They are found in damp and in coastal areas like San Diego. The bad thing about mold is when it settles somewhere then it will easily grow around it and all over it and will gradually get worse. If you ever wanna get rid of mold then you will need to get some bleach and mix it with water. You will need to spray it well then leave it for 10-15 minutes before rinsing it off. Have you ever smelled mold? Well mold produces this gas called microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOC) this smell is really musty smell so if you ever smell a random musty smell in your home (even if you can’t see it) then it could be mold growing in your …show more content…
3
What is mold??.....3
Does Mold bother you??.....3
Can Mold help you??.....4
How is mold harmful??.....4
How to get rid of mold…4
Pictures of mold…..5
Table of contents…..6
Experimental procedure…..7
Work cited…..8
Experimental procedure
Experiment: First off I wanted to see how I could compare bread without water to bread with water so I got two pieces of bread and took a bottle of regular water and wet one of them down then I put them in a ziploc bag for a little over a week.
Results: So it took 4 days for the wet bread to mold and it took about 8 days for the regular bread to mold. That shows that it takes 4 more days when its not wet to when it is wet and that mold grows faster when
10th grade
Mr.Tripp Sanders
February 3rd, 2018
Purpose The goal of my project is to show everyone how mold grows. Mold grows everywhere. You have probably seen mold a lot. You have seen it mostly on bread and in drinks that have set a long time.
Hypothesis Mold is going to grow on the one I sprayed with water because the one without the water is going to take longer to mold.
Materials
Ziplock bag
2 pieces of bread
Spray bottle
Water
Warm areas
Moist air
Review of literature Mold is a fungi that can be found all over the place. Mold grows inside and also grows outside. Inside it grows on bread and in the shower and outside it grows under rocks and in moist areas. Mold can affect your …show more content…
It is helpful to humans in many ways. Mold breaks down dead substances. We eat mold in mushrooms. Cheese is molding. Penicillin has mold in it, many people take penicillin when they are sick. Mold can be harmful to livestock it can grow in the corn and cause parasites. The common types of mold that grow in your home can be aspergillus, cladosporium, and black mold. Aspergillus can be found in food and they are also found in your air conditioning systems. Mold grows outside of your house. They are found in damp and in coastal areas like San Diego. The bad thing about mold is when it settles somewhere then it will easily grow around it and all over it and will gradually get worse. If you ever wanna get rid of mold then you will need to get some bleach and mix it with water. You will need to spray it well then leave it for 10-15 minutes before rinsing it off. Have you ever smelled mold? Well mold produces this gas called microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOC) this smell is really musty smell so if you ever smell a random musty smell in your home (even if you can’t see it) then it could be mold growing in your …show more content…
3
What is mold??.....3
Does Mold bother you??.....3
Can Mold help you??.....4
How is mold harmful??.....4
How to get rid of mold…4
Pictures of mold…..5
Table of contents…..6
Experimental procedure…..7
Work cited…..8
Experimental procedure
Experiment: First off I wanted to see how I could compare bread without water to bread with water so I got two pieces of bread and took a bottle of regular water and wet one of them down then I put them in a ziploc bag for a little over a week.
Results: So it took 4 days for the wet bread to mold and it took about 8 days for the regular bread to mold. That shows that it takes 4 more days when its not wet to when it is wet and that mold grows faster when