Year 3 - Nutrition and Skeletons

How do humans get the nutrients they need to be healthy?

• They make their own food using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

• They absorb nutrients from the air.

• They get nutrients from the food they eat.

• Humans don't need nutrients to stay healthy.

Select the nutrients we get from the food we eat.

• Fibre

• Pasta

• Water

• Vegetables

• Protein

What helps other nutrients move around the body?

Humans can eat as much or as little as they want and still be healthy.

• True

• False

How many nutrients are there all together?

• 3

• 6

• 7

• 12

A human could survive by eating the same amount and type of nutrients as an ant.

• True

• False

Vertebrates are animals with a backbone (spine).

• True

• False

Humans, dogs and cats have...

• An endoskeleton

• An exoskeleton

• A hydrostatic skeleton

• An electronic skeleton

Select all of the statements that are true of exoskeletons.

• They are made of metal.

• They are on the outside of the body.

• They protect animals/insects from predators.

• Animals/insects have to put their exoskeleton on everyday.

Animals with hydrostatic skeletons do not have any _____.