Food Groups 3

Question 1

Sources of water

Answer 1

any water we drink, food and vegetables

Question 2

Why is water an essential part of the cytoplasm

Answer 2

It is an essential part of the CYTOPLASM of a cell since all chemical reactions in the cell require the reactants to be dissolved in water.

Question 3

Blood consists of 55 percent water, allow it…

Answer 3

To flow around the body and act as a transport medium for food and waste.

Question 4

Water acts as a what in joints?

Answer 4

Water acts as a LUBRICANT in joints reducing friction and therefore prevent damage.

Question 5

What does water help regulate

Answer 5

It helps to regulate body TEMPERATURE by cooling the body down through sweating.

Question 6

What does water dissolve

Answer 6

It dissolves WASTE products so that they can be removed from the body e.g., urea is dissolved in water to form urine.

Question 7

Vitamin D

Answer 7

Source Oily fish, Eggs, Seeds
Used to maintain strong bones
Deficiency / rickets, leg bones are soft and not in correct shape

Question 8

Vitamin C

Answer 8

Source / dark green vegetables, oranges, lemons
Use / It is required in the formation of connective tissue
Deficiency/ scurvy- bleeding gums

Question 9

Vitamin A

Answer 9

Source / carrots, red or orange vegetables
Milk, cheese, oily fish
Use/ Used in a chemical needed to see in low light
Deficiency/ Night blindness – struggle to see at all in low levels of light

Question 10

Iron source

Answer 10

red meat, dark green vegetables, eg spinach kale

Question 11

Iron function

Answer 11

To make haemoglobin, the red pigment in the blood cells that carries oxygen

Question 12

Iron deficiency

Answer 12

Aeneamia

Question 13

Calcium function

Answer 13

Needed for hard teeth and bones, muscle contraction and blood clotting

Question 14

Calcium deficiency

Answer 14

Osteoporosis