Nutrition Quiz

Use these lettered definitions to match up with the terms listed below!

a. components of food that are indispensable to the body's functioning; they provide energy, serve as building material, help maintain or repair body parts, and support growth

b. carbon containing

c. the study of the nutrients in foods and in the body

d. the foods (including beverages) a person eats and drinks

e. nonnutrient compounds in plant-derived foods having biological activity in the body

f. the sum of a culture's habits, customs, beliefs, and preferences concerning food

g. foods associated with particular cultural subgroups within a population

h. the capacity to do work

i. the nutrients the body cannot make for itself (or cannot make fast enough) from other raw materials

j. the nutrients the body can use for energy

k. pills, liquids, or powders that contain purified nutrients or other ingredients

l. medically, any substance that the body can take in and assimilate that will enable it to stay alive and to grow

m. beans, peas, and lentils valued as inexpensive sources of protein, vitamins, minerals and fiber that contribute little or no fat to the diet

n. compounds other than the six nutrients that are present in foods and that have biological activity in the body

o. the complete set of chromosomes that comprises the entirety of an organism's genetic information

Nutrition Quiz

Use the definitions above to match with these terms. Email your answers to me and I will tell you how well you understand nutrition~

_____ 1. nutrition

_____ 2. essential nutrients

_____ 3. food

_____4. nonnutrients

_____5. organic

_____6. foodways

_____7. energy-yielding nutrients

_____8. nutrients

_____9. energy

_____10. legumes

_____11. phytochemicals

_____12. supplements

_____13. ethnic foods

_____14. diet

_____15. genome

For my Shutterbugs project I needed to research one of my favorite photographers and then try to emulate him or her. I chose Ansel Adams (1902-1984).

Adam's work, spanning 70 years of his life, was a "proselytizing" medium, bringing the beauty of the wild parts of America to the public heart and, with the public behind him, to the politician's table. His collection of mostly black and white photographs has been accredited with helping to establish the Nati0nal Parks organization, and his years of service with the Sierra Club were dedicated to protecting and preserving the wilderness areas that so many of us appreciate.

In the preface of his autobiography, Adams wrote, "People are surprised when I say that I never intentionally made a creative photograph that related directly to an environmental issue, though I am greatly pleased when a picture I have made becomes useful to an important cause. I cannot command the creative impulse on demand. I never know in advance precisely what I will photograph. I go out into the work and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will contiue to make photographs till my last breath" (Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, 1985).

Adams died one month after those words were written. His autobiography was published after his death.

Here are my attempts to emmulate Adams' work:

This is Adams' "Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California, c.1948" This is my "Maple Tree, Snowstorm, Argyle, New York, c.2011" This is Adams' "Dune, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, c.1942"

This is my "Welcome Center, Ontario Canada, c.2001"

This is Adams' "Vernal Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, c.1948"

This is my "Rocky Mountain Snowstorm, Colorado, c.2001"

This is Adams' "Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, c.1958"

This is my "Crane Pond, Adirondack National Park, New York, c.1999"

This is one of Adams' most notable photographs. It is called "Georgia O'Keefe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Park, Arizona, c.1937." I have tried to emmulate this one with two of my children (not terribly successful as you may notice...my version is at the beginning of this post!) I will try again in the warmer weather when there is less snow and I can get a little better angle.

I've started noticing Adams' photography in many places. His work truly does stand out above many other wilderness photographers. My only disappointment in researching Adams was that I could not find any photographs by him of my own beloved Adirondacks.