Food and Digestion

Food and Digestion © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 1 Q1. What type of food is essential for growth and repair? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 2 A1. Protein © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 3 Q2. What type of food provides energy quite quickly? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 4 A2. Carbohydrates © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 5 Q3. What type of food provides an energy store within the body? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 6 A3. Fat © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 7 Q4. What is an insoluble carbohydrate with big molecules? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 8 A4. Starch © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 9 Q5. What are needed in very small amounts to keep body processes working properly? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 10 A5. Vitamins © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 11 Q6. What do you call essential elements, like calcium for healthy bones? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 12 A6. Minerals © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 13 Q7. What keeps food moving through the digestive system? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 14 A7. Fibre © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 15 Q8. Where does food enter the body? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 16 A8. Mouth © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 17 Q9. What do you call the organ where food is absorbed into the blood? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 18 A9. Intestines © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 19 Q10. What is the tube from mouth to stomach called? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 20 A10. Gullet © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 21 Q11. Where are faeces (mainly indigestible foods) stored? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 22 A11. Rectum © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 23 Q12. Where do faeces leave the body? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 24 A12. Anus © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 25 Q13. What is the tiny finger shaped projection in the digestive system that helps absorb food into the bloodstream called? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 26 A13. Villus © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 27 Q14. What is the name of the semi-permeable tubing that only small molecules can get through? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 28 A14. Visking tubing © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 29 Q15. What is the muscular organ in your body that churns up food? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 30 A15. Stomach © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 31 Q16. What are the organic catalysts that speed up chemical reactions called? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 32 A16. Enzymes © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 33 Q17. What building blocks are proteins made of? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 34 A17. Amino acids © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 35 Q18. What is needed to drive all life processes? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 36 A18. Energy © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 37 Q19. When a diet has a healthy mixture of different foods it is ... ? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 38 A19. Balanced © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 39 Q20. What is the technical term for all the foods that you eat? © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 40 A20. Diet © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion 41 Well Done! Now check your score © NTScience.co.uk 2005 KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion