Food - Matter and Energy

Questions:

Questions:

​On the human food label:

1. How do we find the energy (calories) per serving?
2. How do we find the matter (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals)?
3. Where can we locate the list of ingredients?

On the pet food label:

1. Where can we locate the list of ingredients?
2. How do we find the percentage of different types of matter in the food?

Answers:

Answers:

1. At the top part of the label it shows that there 60 calories per serving.
2. In the middle part of the label it shows the matter in the product.
3. The list of ingredients is shown at the bottom and it tells you what is in the product.

1. You can find the list of ingredients at the top of the label.
2. It shows the percentage of the matter in the product.

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.

1. I learned that we can figure out everything in percentages on the labels, whether it's pet food or human food.
2. Chicken corn chowder. Chicken stock (ckickens), chicken meat (ckickens), and dehydrated buttermilk (cows).
3. Tomato puree (from tomatos), high fructose corn syrup (corn), soybean oil (soybeans), carrot fiber (carrots), spices (unknown plants, but they com from plants), and sugar (sugar cane).
4. The differences with the two labels are that they are set up differently, because the pet food label has the ingredients on the top, while the human food label ingredients are on the bottom. Things that are the same are that they both have a paragraph like thing that has the ingredients on it.
5. My animals is going to be a squirrel. They eat seeds and nuts, plants and things people grow in their gardens, caterpillars and grasshoppers, and I think that it gets matter and energy form its food.

Reflection/Synthesis

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?

1. Food provides matter and energy to survive for animals and humans.
2. In some ways the pet food and human food labels show that they supply different things for different species. For example, the human food mostly had a mix of meat and veggies, while the pet food consists of mostly meat.
3. A higher calorie count just means that it gives them more energy, and pet owners, depending on what shape theor pet is in, might need more or less calories, so really you can't say for sure yes or no, is it a good thing for more calories.
   
4. In food is energy and matter, and that is the things that will help us grow and live. We need energy to move, and to do anything even like moving, and matter is like the food we get to help us keep our belly full.
5. The thing in food that helps us move and stay warm is the energy.
6. When animals eat food, they burn off some of the energy, and then when another animals eats that animals, it gets the energy that that one has stored in its body. It burns off some energy. Then when another animals eats that animal, then it gets only a small portion of what the first animal had, so it eats more food.
7. I didn't see a label below, but our label says that there are 150 calories per cup.
8. (Our label) The matter that is in the food is vitamin D3 and milk.