Nutrition Labels
This tells you how many calories you get from one serving of a food.
👉 What are calories?
This is the basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
👉 What is a cell?
This is a method of growing plants without using soil.
👉 What is hydroponics?
This process allows plants to make their own food using light energy.
👉 What is photosynthesis?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals.
👉 What are decomposers?
This part of the label tells you how much of the food most people actually eat at one time.
👉 What is serving size?
This cell organelle controls what enters and leaves the cell.
👉 What is the cell membrane?
In hydroponics systems, plants get nutrients from this instead of soil.
👉 What is nutrient-rich water (nutrient solution)?
This pigment in chloroplasts absorbs light energy.
👉 What is chlorophyll?
This group of organisms includes mushrooms and plays an important role in decomposition.
👉 What are fungi?
If a label says 2 servings per container and 150 calories per serving, this is the total number of calories in the whole container.
👉 What is 300 calories?
This organelle is where cellular respiration happens and energy is released from glucose.
👉 What is the mitochondria?
Plants in hydroponics still need this gas from the air for photosynthesis.
👉 What is carbon dioxide?
These are the two reactants needed for photosynthesis.
👉 What are carbon dioxide and water?
Decomposers return this type of matter back into the soil for plants to reuse.
👉 What are nutrients?
This nutrient provides energy and is broken down into glucose, which cells use in cellular respiration.
👉 What are carbohydrates?
This organelle in plant cells contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
👉 What is the chloroplast?
Hydroponics systems allow scientists to control variables like light, water, and this to test plant growth.
👉 What are nutrients?
This sugar is produced during photosynthesis and used in cellular respiration.
👉 What is glucose?
Through decomposition, carbon from dead organisms returns to this part of the carbon cycle.
👉 What is the atmosphere?
This percent on a nutrition label helps you decide if a food is high or low in a nutrient based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
👉 What is Percent Daily Value (%DV)?
Plant cells have this structure that provides support and protection and is not found in animal cells.
👉 What is the cell wall?
One advantage of hydroponics is that it can use less of this natural resource compared to traditional farming.
👉 What is water?
This gas is released into the atmosphere as a product of photosynthesis.
👉 What is oxygen?
Without decomposers, dead organisms would accumulate and this cycle would be disrupted.
👉 What is the matter cycle (carbon cycle)?