Food Matter and Energy

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