Producers & Consumers
A producer uses what ingredients to make food
What is water, energy (sunlight), and carbon dioxide
What are the three macronutrients our bodies need
What are carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
Why might our bodies use more energy than an ectothermic organisms?
What is because we have to keep our internal temperature constant which requires more energy
What is a calorie
A unit of measuring energy
Organisms that produce their own food
What is a producer
Do consumers get their energy from the sun directly or indirectly?
What is indirectly, they consume the producers who get their energy from the sun
This is the preferred nutrient of our bodies
carbohydrates, in particular, our bodies prefer the simplest, which is the monosaccharide known as glucose
To create combustion, what two things are required from our cells
What are oxygen and food
If you eat fewer calories than your BMR and activity level require, will you lose weight, gain weight, or stay at the same weight?
What is most likely lose weight
Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers
What is a consumer
Organisms that break down dead organisms and recycle those materials are called this
What are decomposers
There are two types of fats, which kind can be found as a solid at room temperature
What are saturated fats, such as butter, lard, shortening
Compare two animals, an ectotherm and an endotherm. One eats three times its own weight in food each day while the other eats less than its own weight in food every day. Which is endothermic and which is ectothermic?
The first animal is most likely endothermic, it needs to eat more food to make more energy to keep its constant body temperature whereas the second one is most likely ectothermic, it doesn’t need as much energy as it doesn’t keep its internal body temperature constant.
Metabolic rate consists of these two numbers
What is your BMR and your activity level
A consumer that eats only producers
What is an herbivore
Label the following as a consumer, producer, or decomposer
yeast
rose bush
ant
What are
decomposer
producer
consumer
What do proteins produce that make them so important to our cells
What is amino acids, there are 9 amino acids our bodies can't make so we have to eat foods that contain those 9 amino acids
Combustion in our cells produces what three things
What are energy, water, and carbon dioxide
Consider two roommates in college who are both essentially the same height, weight, and age. They eat the same amount of the same cafeteria food each day. They also participate in essentially the same activities each day. However, one roommate loses weight during his first year of college while the other gains weight. How is this possible?
What is they have different BMRs
A consumer that eats only other consumers
What is a carnivore
A creature’s diet consists of leaves, fruit, and bugs, it is considered this
What is an omnivore, that is it consumes producers and consumers
A man goes on a no-fat diet. As a result, his macronutrients intake is almost all carbs and proteins. An analysis of his body’s fat content was done before he started the diet and several weeks afterwards. To his shock, the level of fat has increased after being on the diet. Where did the excess fat come from?
The excess carbohydrates and proteins can be converted fat, so that would be where the fat is coming from.
How many basic steps are there in the combustion process that takes place in your cells and what are they called?
Three, glycolysis, krebs cycle, and electron transport system
(scientists will say four but we are simplifying for now)
Is it true that a mouse has to comparably consume more food than an elephant?
Yes, because the mouse has a higher metabolism since it is working harder to keep its internal temperature constant than an elephant
The minimum amount of energy required by the body in a day
What is Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)