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Worksheet 2. Nutrition (1) .Odt
Worksheet 2. Nutrition (1) .Odt
NUTRITION
1. What type of nutrition takes place in human cells? And in a spinach leaf?
2. Which type of nutrition...
a. produces water and carbon dioxide?
b. takes in water and mineral salts?
3. Why is nutrition necessary for living things?
Digestion
4. Why do animals need to digest their food? What do they obtain during digestive process?
5. Which are accessory glands? What do they do?
6. Describe the digestive process below. What type of digestion is it?
9. A pellet is the mass of undigested parts of food that some birds expel through the mouth.
Nocturnal birds of prey, such as owls, swallow large bites of their prey or the entire animal. As a
result, they produce the largest pellets.
a. Which part of the digestive process does the pellet expulsion represent?
b. Why do you think that birds expel fur, feathers, skin and bones?
c. What information can the study of pellets provide?
NUMBER
a. The intake of food into the body.
Respiration
11. Amphibians have very moist skin. They can carry out two types of respiration. Which types are
they?
12. Classify these animals by their types of respiration (cutaneous, branchial, tracheal or
pulmonary): sardine, dog, pigeon, spider, frog, whale, earthworm and grasshopper.
13. When there is a lack of oxygen, some aquatic worms stretch their bodies. They can become
twenty times longer.
a. What kind of respiratory system do these worms have?
b. What is the advantage of stretching the body?
Circulation
15. Label the parts of the circulatory system in a fish and in a zebra:
16. Compare open and closed circulatory systems. Explain the difference.
17. The following diagrams represent the circulatory systems of an amphibian and a mammal.
a. What type of circulatory system is each?
b. Which vessels transport oxygenated blood?
c. Which vessels transport de-oxygenated blood?
18. Classify these animals by their types of circulation: spider, trout, crab, horse, shark, whale,
snail, salmon, bat.
Excretion
19. Label the parts of the following excretory systems:
20. Look at the diagram of the vertebrate excretory system. Describe how urine flows through the
excretory organs and is expelled by the body. “First, urine is produced in the …………… Then,
……………
Nutrition in plants
21. Can photosynthesis take place if a leaf surface is covered in wax? Why?
22. Does photosynthesis occur only in plants? Explain.
23. What type of sap circulates through the vessels to the petals: raw sap or elaborated sap?
24. Plants do not use digestive processes to incorporated nutrients. Why?
25. Complete the table for plants:
Raw sap Elaborated sap
Composition
Method of transport
Function
26. When you buy flowers, florists recommend that you add some sugar to the water so they stay
fresh longer. Why do you think flowers stay fresh longer if you do this?
27. Can oxygen be considered a product of plant excretion? What about carbon dioxide? Is oxygen a
product of excretion in animals?
28. Some people say you should not sleep in a room with plants. What is the reason for this? Do you
think this recommendation is correct?
29. Label the diagram of plant nutrition: