1. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion1 Food and Digestion

2. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion2 Q1. What type of food is essential for growth and repair?

3. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion3 A1. Protein

4. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion4 Q2. What type of food provides energy quite quickly?

5. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion5 A2. Carbohydrates

6. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion6 Q3. What type of food provides an energy store within the body?

7. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion7 A3. Fat

8. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion8 Q4. What is an insoluble carbohydrate with big molecules?

9. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion9 A4. Starch

10. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion10 Q5. What are needed in very small amounts to keep body processes working properly?

11. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion11 A5. Vitamins

12. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion12 Q6. What do you call essential elements, like calcium for healthy bones?

13. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion13 A6. Minerals

14. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion14 Q7. What keeps food moving through the digestive system?

15. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion15 A7. Fibre

16. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion16 Q8. Where does food enter the body?

17. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion17 A8. Mouth

18. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion18 Q9. What do you call the organ where food is absorbed into the blood?

19. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion19 A9. Intestines

20. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion20 Q10. What is the tube from mouth to stomach called?

21. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion21 A10. Gullet

22. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion22 Q11. Where are faeces (mainly indigestible foods) stored?

23. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion23 A11. Rectum

24. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion24 Q12. Where do faeces leave the body?

25. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion25 A12. Anus

26. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion26 Q13. What is the tiny finger shaped projection in the digestive system that helps absorb food into the bloodstream called?

27. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion27 A13. Villus

28. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion28 Q14. What is the name of the semi-permeable tubing that only small molecules can get through?

29. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion29 A14. Visking tubing

30. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion30 Q15. What is the muscular organ in your body that churns up food?

31. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion31 A15. Stomach

32. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion32 Q16. What are the organic catalysts that speed up chemical reactions called?

33. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion33 A16. Enzymes

34. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion34 Q17. What building blocks are proteins made of?

35. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion35 A17. Amino acids

36. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion36 Q18. What is needed to drive all life processes?

37. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion37 A18. Energy

38. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion38 Q19. When a diet has a healthy mixture of different foods it is... ?

39. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion39 A19. Balanced

40. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion40 Q20. What is the technical term for all the foods that you eat?

41. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion41 A20. Diet

42. © NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8a Food and Digestion Well Done! Now check your score