Food - Matter & Energy

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.

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. How different foods are a lot better for you than other foods. Also how some foods kind of trick you with the serving size.
2. Peanut butter. It has no ingredients that comes from an animal.
3. Tomato puree, and soybean oil.
4. Both labels have one ingredient that has to do with carrots. The human label has no meat, while the pet food one has lots.
5. A rolly pollie probably eats leaves other parts of plants. It gets energy and matter from it's food.

Answers:

1. Matter and energy.
2. They have some of the same. They both have Vitamin A and calcium. The soup doesn't have any meat though, and the pet food does.
3. Because then their pets will then have a lot of energy. I think it might be a little better, as long as they burn some of the calories to.
4. Protein.
5. Calories (energy).
6. When animals eat other animals. Then the animals that ate the animal get some of the stored energy that the animal had inside of it.
7. 160 calories per serving. 
8. Most likely the fat and the protein. That's what adds weight and muscles to your body.