Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Explain how the matter in each ingredient can be traced back to plants.
2. Explain how these ingredients can be traced back to the sun.
3. What MATTER in the food originally came from producers?
4. What ENERGY in the food originally came from the sun?
5. How is energy transferred from the sun to ingredients in your favorite foods?

Answers:

1. The Meat can Be traced back to Pigs Witch eat vegetables which are from plants.
2. They all come from plants and the plants get there energy to grow from the sun
3. What ever plant the animal eats and then the animal is the hot dog ​
4. ​Solar energy
5. Photosynthesis

                                                         Producer                                  Consumer                        Consumer        

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
2. Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
3. What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
4. Using this food chain, "sunlight to apple to worm to bird to cat," How do organisms in this food chain get the matter they need for body repair and growth?
5. Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
6. What do you think happens to the matter that is NOT used by the organisms in a food chain or food web? Is it wasted or does something else happen?

Answers:

1. Well the sun makes the grass grow then the bunny eats the grass then the Eagle eats the bunny
2. Yes because diffrent things make foods grow
3. It is Exstinked
   
4. Eating the things below them
   
5. They get there energy and warmth from the sun
   
6. It Goes to the animal that eats it

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What does food provide to animals, including humans?
2. Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
3. Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
4. What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
5. What in food helps us move and stay warm?
6. In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
7. Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
8. What matter is in the food?

Answers:

1. Energy and protein 
2. Pet food has a lot of different kinds of food then human food


3. It means it is worst then you but you still want enough Calories
4. Protein
5. Calories and energy
6. When an animal eats a nother animal it gets some of that animals energy
7. 160 calories pur surving
8. The Fat and protein

Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:

1. As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
2. Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
3. What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
4. What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
5. Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.

Answers:

1. That food has a lot of different types of ingredients in them


2. None of the food came from an animal
3. Tomatoes, Corn
4. The human and pet labels have a lot of diffrnt things in them
5. Squirrel I think It eats nuts and seeds