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Question 1

Define the following terms:

A. Producers

Answer 1

Organisms that produce their own food

Question 2

B. Consumers

Answer 2

Organisms that ear living producers and or other consumers for food

Question 3

C. Herbivores

Answer 3

A consumer that eats producers exclusively

Question 4

D. Carnivore

Answer 4

A consumer that eats only other consumers

Question 5

E. Omnivore

Answer 5

The consumer that eat both producers and consumers

Question 6

F. Basal metabolic rate

Answer 6

The minimum amount of energy required by the body in a day

Question 7

From where does the energy in most living organisms ultimately originate ?

Answer 7

Sun

Question 8

Label each of the following as a consumer, producer or as a decomposer:
A. a mushroom 
B. evergreen bush 
C.  worm 
D. Algae

Answer 8

A. Decomposer
B. Producer
C. Consumer
D. Producer

Question 9

What is the name of the chemical process convert food into energy

Answer 9

Combustion

Question 10

What does combustion require?

Answer 10

Oxygen, and something to burn

Question 11

What are the three macronutrients?

Answer 11

Carbohydrates, fat, protein

Question 12

What is the main thing that macronutrients provide

Answer 12

Energy

Question 13

Do we need to eat more macronutrients or micronutrients

Answer 13

Yes, more macronutrients

Question 14

Which is larger a monosaccharide, a disaccharide, or a polysaccharide

Answer 14

A polysaccharide

Question 15

Is glucose a monosaccharide, a disaccharide, or a polysaccharide

Answer 15

A monosaccharide

Question 16

What are the two basic kinds of fat? How can you distinguish them?

Answer 16

Saturated fats and unsaturated fats.

saturated fats are solid at room temperature and unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature

Question 17

What are proteins made of?

Answer 17

Amino acids

Question 18

In what order does the body prefer to burn the macronutrients

Answer 18

Carbohydrates, then fats, then proteins

Question 19

When proteins are eating, they are broken down into their amino acids. If your cells are short on amino acid, what happens to me no houses that come from the proteins you eat? What happens if your cells have one day of amino acids?

Answer 19

It will make the amino acids into proteins if there are only a few. If there are many it will burn the amino acids

Question 20

Why is it important to eat either animal protein or a wide righty of plant protein

Answer 20

Because we can’t make the amino acids that we need

Question 21

Which type of animal has a higher BMR: an endothermic animal or an ectothermic animal

Answer 21

An endothermic animal

Question 22

Which type of animal cannot be active on a very cold day: an endothermic animal or an ectothermic animal

Answer 22

An ectothermic animal

Question 23

What do calories measure?

Answer 23

Energy

Question 24

Consider two men. While they sleep, they burn about the same number of calories. However, the first man need significantly more calories then the second in order to keep his weight consistent. Which man is less active during the day?

Answer 24

Probably the second

Question 25

Do you know Amanda are essentially the same height, weight, and age. If Jen needs to eat more calories than one but in order to keep her awake, can you immediately conclude that Jean is more active than Wanda?

Answer 25

No

Question 26

When normalized by weight, which has a higher BMR: a horse or a mouse?

Answer 26

The mouse

Question 27

Where does combustion of the food take place?

Answer 27

In the cell

Question 28

Why is the mitochondrion called the “powerhouse” of the cell?

Answer 28

It “produces” the most energy

Question 29

How many basic steps are involved in the combustion of food? Why do cells do it in such a complex way

Answer 29

Three. In order for the cell not to burn up