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digestion

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8A Quick Quiz

On your answer sheet, write in the correct letter for each question.
8
A
8Aa 3 Which of these people will need to eat the
most food in a day?
1 A food substance found in many foods is: A a 3-year-old child
A carbohydrate. B chalk. B an 85-year-old woman
C energy. D carbon dioxide. C a 35-year-old man, who works outside
2 What is used to test a food for starch? cutting down trees
A iodine solution D a 25-year-old woman, who works in an
B potatoes office using a word processor
C Benedict’s solution 4 Which of these is not a problem that can be
D Fehling’s solution caused by having too much sugar in the diet?
3 Water is important to the body because: A tooth decay
A it is a source of fibre. B anorexia
B it is a source of energy. C obesity
C it can be a solid, a liquid or a gas. D heart disease
D it can dissolve things.

4 Fibre in your diet helps to stop: 8Ac


A you lying.
1 Which organ is
B scurvy. labelled X in the
C constipation. drawing?
D digestion.
A small intestine
X
B stomach
8Ab C liver
D mouth
1 You have a balanced diet when:
A the mass of all the food you eat in a day
adds up to 100 kg.
B the mass of all the food you eat one day is
equal to the mass you eat the next day. 2 In the diagram above what does the organ
C you eat a wide range of different foods to labelled X do?
give your body all the things it needs. A It mixes up food with acid and breaks
D you only eat fish on Fridays. down proteins.
B It adds vitamins to the food.
2 Meats are a good source of which food
C It takes the water out of the food.
substance, needed for growth and repair?
D It stores waste food until it can be got
A fibre B protein
rid of.
C oxygen D vitamins

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8A Quick Quiz (continued)

3 In digestion:
8 A soluble food substances are made into
8Ae
A insoluble ones. 1 Which label shows the place where digested
B insoluble food substances are broken up food is taken into the blood?
into soluble ones.
C food is stored inside the body until it is
A
needed.
D waste food is removed from the body.

4 The main chemicals used to digest foods are:


A vitamins. B bacteria. B
C digestifs. D enzymes.
C

D
8Ad
1 Which of these is an example of a digestive 2 Digested food is carried around the whole
juice? body in:
A blood B water A the digestive system.
C saliva D urine B blood vessels.
C air.
2 The drawing shows a model gut. Which part
D cells.
represents the inside of the small intestine?
3 The liquid that cells obtain their food directly
from is called:
A blood.
A B tissue fluid.
B C cell sap.
D water.
C
4 What is the digested food used for inside our
D bodies?
A to provide energy only
3 Starch can be completely digested into a B to provide substances to make sure that
sugar called: the blood does not become too runny
A glucose. B table sugar. C to help us go to the toilet more easily
C mucose. D carbohydrate. D to provide energy and chemicals to make
new substances
4 The enzymes in humans work best at body
temperature. Which temperature is this?
A 37 °C B 0 °C
C 100 °C D 98 °C

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