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?

1. The matter in each ingredient can be traced back to plants because ether it was traced back to cows or the plant it's self.
2. Cows eat grass and grass grows with the sun or tomato plants grow with the help of the sun.
3. A tomato comes from the plant and we all know that plants are producers.
4. Tomato plants use the sun to get energy to produce the tomato.
5. Energy is transferred from grass, tomatoes, and cows that eat the grass.

Questions

1. Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
2. Where do plants get their MATTER?
3. Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
4. Why are plants called Producers?
5. What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
6. What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
7. What are some of the LIVING components of a plant "system"? (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.)
8. What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
9. In what ways do the components of the system interact?
10. What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?
    

Answers
1. Plants get there energy from the sun and carbon dioxide.
2. Plants get there mater from the sun so they can turn it in to sugar.
3. They make there own food for them self.
4. Plants are producers because they make there own food for them self.
5. The plants would shrivel up and die.
6. The animals will die and then the will turn in to fertilizer and make more more plants grow
7. One thing is leaves, stem, and roots.
8. One thing is a fallen leaves.
9. The water the sun the wind and the animals.
10. One thing is water, sun light, oxygen.

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?
   

1. You look at the top and find calories per serving.
2. You look in the middle section and look for all the minerals. The minerals are bold.
3. The list of ingredients are at the bottom of the label.

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?
   

1. The list of ingredients are at the very top of the label.
2. You look at the guaranteed analysis and it will tell you.

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.
   

1. You know where to look for the labels and look at the %.
2. In the human food label tomato puree doesn't come from any animals.
3. Tomato,corn,soy beans and carrots are all in the label above.
4. The similarity is that they put the ingredients on the package.
5. I thought that the worms would eat dirt. The worm gets energy from the dirt.