When fish are given food, their bodies break it down to extract nutrients and energy for vital processes like growth, movement, and wound healing. Plants get their energy from sunlight while animals obtain energy by eating food, which provides necessary nutrients like fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Any food remnants that the body cannot use are expelled as feces.

1. Fish Metabolism
What happens when
you give fish food?
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2. All living things need energy!
Repairing
wounds
Talking
Growing
Moving
So
many
more!
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3. Where does energy come from?
Plants
use the
sun
Animals eat food
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4. Living things need a lot of different
nutrients such as…
Fats
Carbohydrates
Proteins
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5. What are feces?
Food that the
body cannot
use!
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