Why Might Fake Sugar Make Us Real Hungry?

What is sugar made from, and what does it break down into in the body?

• Sugar is made from glucose and breaks down into fructose.

• Sugar is made from sucrose and breaks down into glucose and fructose.

• Sugar is made from lactose and breaks down into galactose.

• Sugar is made from maltose and breaks down into glucose.

Artificial sweeteners are used as a substitute for what?

• Sugar

• Salt

• Flour

• Butter

According to some studies, what effect might artificial sweeteners have on hunger?

• They increase hunger

• They decrease hunger

• They have no effect on hunger

• They completely suppress hunger

Matter cycles through the environment in which of the following ways?

• it moves to the soil and air when living things die

• it moves to living things when they eat plants and other animals

• matter cycles in all of these ways

• it moves to the soil and water when living things produce waste

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Which of the following is correct about cellular respiration?

• A. Sugars and oxygen are broken down by chemical reactions to form carbon dioxide and energy

• B. Carbon dioxide and water are destroyed, which creates energy to form sugars and oxygen

• C. Sugars and oxygen are broken down by physical processes to form carbon dioxide and energy

• D. Carbon dioxide and water are reacted to produce sugars and oxygen using energy from the sun.

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This student created a model of glucose, a molecule that makes up sugar, going through the process of cellular respiration. The model is incomplete. However, one thing it DOES show well is __

• this model shows all of these well.

• that molecules are broken down and rearranged.

• that matter is conserved.

• that energy is released.

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Which change to this student model would help it more accurately show the process of cellular respiration?

• Adding a symbol to represent energy

• All of these changes would improve the model

• A key showing what the black and red circles represent

• Having the same number of black and red dots on each side to show that matter is conserved

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When food is broken down in the body __.

• A. chemical reactions are happening

• B. new molecules are formed

• C. energy is released

• D. all of these.

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As sugar moves through a series of chemical reactions in the body __

• the molecules that make up the food are destroyed and new energy is created.

• the atoms that make up the food molecules are rearranged, and energy is released.

• the atoms that make up the food molecules are destroyed and energy is created.

• the molecules that make up the food are broken down and new atoms are created.

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Which statement(s) about how sugar is broken down in the body are true?

A. chemical reactions are taking place

B. molecules are broken down but atoms are conserved

C. oxygen is produced and energy is created

• A only

• A and C

• C only

• A and B

• B only

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