Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:
- As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
- Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
- What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
- What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
- Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.
- How to know how much is in each food
- Tomato Soup, and there are no animals.
- All of them are made from plants.
- Both have ingredients, matter, energy, and calories.
- The ant probably eats soil and maybe smaller ants. And it gets energy and matter and calories from it's food.
Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.
- What does food provide to animals, including humans?
- Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
- Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
- What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
- What in food helps us move and stay warm?
- In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
- Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
- What matter is in the food?
- Energy, Matter, and calories.
- Some of them are the same nutrients but others are different like Zinc isn't in the human food label.
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- Calcium.
- Energy.
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- You measure it with calories.
- All of it is matter.