Health Chapter 6

Question 1

What is the source of most of your body’s energy?

Answer 1

Carbohydrates.

Question 2

What nutrient should be included in half the food you eat?

Answer 2

Carbohydrates.

Question 3

What nutrient consists of amino acids as its basic building blocks?

Answer 3

Protein.

Question 4

How much of your food intake should consist of fatty foods?

Answer 4

Under 1/4.

Question 5

What essential fatty acid cannot be produced by your body?

Answer 5

Linoleic acid.

Question 6

Which type of fat, animal or vegetable, contains the most cholesterol?

Answer 6

Animal.

Question 7

A pigment that your body uses to manufacture Vitamin A.

Answer 7

Carotene.

Question 8

Another name for Vitamin B.

Answer 8

Thiamin.

Question 9

A disease that results from a severe deficiency of Vitamin B.

Answer 9

Beriberi.

Question 10

A vitamin that prevents scurvy and increases resistance to infection.

Answer 10

Vitamin C.

Question 11

The sunshine vitamin.

Answer 11

Vitamin D.

Question 12

A vitamin that aids in blood clotting.

Answer 12

Vitamin K.

Question 13

A vitamin that protects other vitamins from being destroyed by oxygen.

Answer 13

Vitamin E.

Question 14

A deficiency of this mineral can result in osteoporosis.

Answer 14

Calcium.

Question 15

A deficiency of this mineral can result in anemia.

Answer 15

Iron.

Question 16

A deficiency of this mineral can result in a goiter.

Answer 16

Iodine.

Question 17

The mineral that enables your blood to carry oxygen.

Answer 17

Potassium.

Question 18

A mineral commonly found in commercially canned foods, pickled foods, processed meats, and table salt.

Answer 18

Sodium.

Question 19

How many times do you need protein foods in a day?

Answer 19

You need a small serving at two or three meals a day.

Question 20

How many times a day do you need dairy products?

Answer 20

You need at least one serving at every meal.

Question 21

How many times a day do you need fats and oils?

Answer 21

You need only a small amount daily.

Question 22

How many times a day do you need dark green and deep yellow fruits and vegetables?

Answer 22

You need at least one serving at two different meals daily.

Question 23

How many times a day do you need breads and cereals?

Answer 23

You need about four servings daily; the more active you are, the more you need.

Question 24

How many times a day do you need foods rich with Vitamin C.

Answer 24

You need at least one serving daily.

Question 25

How many times a day do you need other fruits and vegetables, (like bananas, pears, apples, watermelon, potatoes, corn, and peas).

Answer 25

You need two or more servings daily.

Question 26

What does the suffix -sclero- mean?

Answer 26

“hard”

Question 27

What does the suffix -osis- mean?

Answer 27

“disease”

Question 28

What does the suffix -osteo- refer to?

Answer 28

The bones.

Question 29

What does the prefix -hema- or -hemo- mean?

Answer 29

“blood?