Nutrient Know-How
These are the six essential nutrient groups.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water?
These units measure the amount of energy in food.
What are calories?
This section of a food package lists calories and the amounts of nutrients per serving.
What is the Nutrition Facts label?
Plants use sunlight to make glucose through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
By removing the light source this process would be interfered with in plants or algae.
What is photosynthesis?
These are the four main elements found in living things.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
This nutrient group helps the body grow and repair tissues. Foods such as eggs, beans, and meat supply it.
What are proteins?
These three nutrient groups can be used as fuel by human cells.
What are carbohydrates, fats, and proteins?
Check this first to find out how much food the nutrition information describes.
What is the serving size?
Photosynthesis takes place in these organelles in plant cells.
What are chloroplasts?
These plant structures capture light and are the main sites of photosynthesis.
This is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties.
What is an atom?
Sugars and starches belong to this nutrient group, the body’s main source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
Cells use this molecule to supply energy directly for activities such as movement, growth, and repair.
What is ATP?
Ingredients are listed from greatest to least by this measurement.
What is weight?
This formula shows: 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + light energy → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂
What is photosynthesis?
This plant tissue transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots upward.
What is xylem?
This forms when two or more atoms chemically bond together.
What is a molecule (or compound)?
This nutrient helps insulate the body, cushions organs, and provides long-term energy storage.
What is fat?
A food contains 10 grams of carbohydrates. At 4 Calories per gram, the carbohydrates provide this much energy.
What are 40 Calories?
Glucose, fructose, and sucrose are all examples of this.
What are sugars?
What is the mitochondria?
This plant tissue transports sugars from leaves to other parts of the plant.
What is phloem?
This is chemical formula for glucose.
What is C₆H₁₂O₆?
These two nutrient groups are needed in small amounts to help the body function properly, but they provide no calories.
What are vitamins and minerals?
Someone eating only plain pasta and water may get enough calories but still become unhealthy for this reason.
What is a lack of other essential nutrients (such as, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals) needed for growth, repair, and proper body function?
A snack has 150 Calories and 8 grams of added sugar per serving. Eating two servings gives you these totals.
What are 300 Calories and 16 grams of added sugar?
This is the word equation for aerobic cellular respiration.
What is glucose + oxygen → carbon dioxide + water + energy (ATP and heat)?
These tiny pores in leaves allow carbon dioxide to enter and oxygen and water vapor to exit.
What are stomata?
Miller and Urey conducted an experiment that demonstrated that these building blocks of proteins could form under conditions thought to resemble early Earth.
What are amino acids?