Food and Nutrients

Question 1

diet

Answer 1

what a person eats

Question 2

nutrients

Answer 2

food substances that provide raw materials

Question 3

liquid fat is called…

Answer 3

oils

Question 4

fibre

Answer 4

helps move food through the intestines and stops them getting blocked (constipation)

Question 5

nutrition information labels

Answer 5

shows the amounts of different nutrients in a food

Question 6

respiration in food nutrition

Answer 6

the process by which energy is released from eating food

Question 7

balanced diet

Answer 7

eating the right amount of a wide variety of food

Question 8

malnutrition

Answer 8

when problems are caused by having too much or too little of a nutrient

Question 9

deficiency disease

Answer 9

a disease caused when you lack a nutrient for a long time

Question 10

obesity

Answer 10

when you become obese because your diet contains more energy than it needs

Question 11

digestion

Answer 11

digests food and turns large soluble substances into smaller soluble ones

Question 12

enzyme

Answer 12

a substance that speeds up the breakdown the large molecules into smaller ones; they are biological catalysts

Question 13

catalysts

Answer 13

a substance that speeds up reactions (without being used)

Question 14

diffusion

Answer 14

the movement (spread out) of a substance from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration

Question 15

what word means taking food into the body?

Answer 15

ingestion

Question 16

what word means expelling faeces from the body?

Answer 16

egestion