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Look at the foods pictured at the bottom of the page. What are the main nutrients found in
these foods? Select all that apply - Answers Fats, Proteins, Carbohydrates
Click to select the two foods below with the greatest amount of carbohydrates - Answers Apple
and Broccoli
What is the smallest unit of carbohydrate? Use the image to the right to determine the answer. -
Answers Glucose/sugar (monosaccharide)
What do you think our bodies do first with the larger carbohydrates we consume in food? -
Answers Break them down into glucose
Which molecules are present, increasing, decreasing, or staying constant in the graph to the
right? - Answers Increasing, not present, decreasing, not present, increasing, decreasing
Based on the graph summary to the right, what do you think is happening to the glucose with
respect to the other molecules? - Answers It decreased while carbon dioxide increased.
Where do you think the process described here happens? Select all that apply: - Answers Ears,
Legs, Cells, Arms
Which detectable traces do we leave behind? Select all that apply: - Answers Water, Carbon
dioxide
Which kinds of organisms do you think get energy through cellular respiration? Select all that
apply: - Answers Animals, Fungi, Plant, and Bacteria
What molecules do you think plants take in for their energy needs (In the screens that follow,
we'll take a closer look)? Select all that apply: - Answers
Why are autotrophs called producers? - Answers They produce their own food
What does the plant need to take in to make its own food? Select all that apply: - Answers
Carbon dioxide, water, and light energy
What detectable traces does the plant leave in the environment through the process of making
its own food? - Answers oxygen
Where do you think most of the plant biomass (body) comes from? - Answers the carbon
dioxide in air
Which one of the following is the most accurate description of plants? - Answers They all make
their own food (sugars) that they then use for a variety of things, including cellular respiration