Question

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eating sweet foods like candy and cookies can make you just as thirsty as eating salty crackers and chips. when you eat foods containing sugar, tiny bits of the sugar are absorbed into your bloodstream. these sugary bits suck water out of your bodys cells, just like salt does. your cells send messages to your brain saying that they need more water. consequently, your brain makes you feel thirsty so that you will drink water.
match causes with their effects.
blood absorbs sugar. you feel thirsty.
cause effect
you eat sweet foods.
cells alert the brain.

Explanation:

• When you eat sweet foods (cause), sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream. Sugar bits suck water from cells. Cells send messages (alert the brain - cause) to the brain. The brain makes you feel thirsty (effect) so you drink water.
• For "You eat sweet foods" (cause), the effect is "Blood absorbs sugar" as per the text "When you eat foods containing sugar, tiny bits of the sugar are absorbed into your bloodstream".
• For "Cells alert the brain" (cause), the effect is "You feel thirsty" as per the text "Your cells send messages to your brain...your brain makes you feel thirsty".

Answer:

• You eat sweet foods - Blood absorbs sugar.
• Cells alert the brain - You feel thirsty.