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End of Unit Test Standard (S)
Name Class Date
1 Fats and minerals are types of nutrient in food. Name two different types of nutrient in food.
protein and carbohydrates
[2 marks]
2 Describe what teeth do to food when we chew.
The teeth crushes down the food when we chew it by movement of mouth and teeth which is called
mechanical digestion.
[1 mark]
3 Look at the cartoon.
Explain why Sylvia’s answer is the best.
Sylvia's answer is the best because a diet means what you eat so she used it as what she eats because
definitly we all eat everyday; however, others used it as a way of becoming fitter and to loose mass.
[1 mark]
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4 The drawing is from an advanced level textbook. The diagram shows the organs that help with
digestion in the body.
a List the organs the food passes through in order, starting with the mouth.
Mouth, gullet, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and anus
[3 marks]
b Explain why the body needs to digest food.
The body needs to digest food to break down large insoluble molecules into smaller soluble ones so they
can be absorbed into the blood.
[1 mark]
c Describe how food is pushed through the oesophagus.
The food is pushed through the gullet by a process called perstalisis which is when the muscles above
food contracts making the tube above narrower to push the food towards the stomach.
[2 marks]
5 What is the life process used to release energy from food? Tick one box.
A respiration
B digestion
C reproduction
D circulation
[1 mark]
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6 This pie chart can be used to help people eat in a healthy way.
a What percentage of a person’s diet should be protein? Tick one box.
A 7%
B 12%
C 15%
D 33%
[1 mark]
b Suggest the name of a food you would find in the ‘dairy products’ section.
Milk
[1 mark]
7 Look at the nutritional information on the food label below.
BLOGGS SUPERFLAKES
Amount per 100 g Amount per 30 g serving
1300 kJ 390 kJ
Carbohydrate 66 g 20 g
Protein 5g 1.5 g
Fat 5g 1.5 g
Fibre 6g 1.8 g
Calcium 30 mg 9 mg
a Name the unit kJ stands for.
kilojoules
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b What is measured in kJ? Tick one box.
A mass
B weight
C energy
D force
[1 mark]
c Superflakes are not a good source of protein. Name one food that is an excellent source
of protein.
Chicken
[1 mark]
d Describe two ways our body can use protein.
For growth and repair by making new cells.
[1 mark]
e Explain why fibre is good for the body.
Fibre is good for the body because it prevents constipation and allows the food to pass through the
digestive system organs.
[1 mark]
f If you add up the masses of the food substances in 100 g, there seems to be nearly 18 g
missing. What substance might this 18 g be? Tick one box.
A sugar
B starch
C vitamin C
D water
[1 mark]
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8 Food packaging sometimes has colours called “traffic lights” to help people choose more healthy
foods.
Green means – there are low amounts of the things you should not eat too much of.
Amber means – there are medium amounts of the things you should not eat too much of.
Red means – there are high amounts of the things you should not eat too much of.
LOW per 100 g MEDIUM per 100 g HIGH per 100 g
Fat <3g 3.0–20 g > 20 g
Saturated fats < 1.5 g 1.5–5 g >5g
Salt < 0.3 g 0.3–1.5 g > 1.5 g
Sugars <5g 5–15 g > 15 g
a Here is a set of traffic lights for ‘Minies Milk Chocolate Light Biscuits’.
Amber Red Red Amber
__________ __________ __________ __________
Name the colour of each rectangle. Use the table to help you.
[2 marks]
Peter works for a building company. He likes to eat Minies Milk Chocolate Light Biscuits at
work. He has always worked hard. In his twenties, when he first started work for the
company, he did a lot of lifting and carrying. Now he is a building site manager and sits at a
desk for most of the day. When Peter first started work, over 20 years ago, he was slim.
Now he has a big belly.
b Give two reasons why Peter now has a big belly.
Peter has a big belly now because he consumed an unhealthy food which contains too much energy
which will cause the energy to be stored as fats and becoming overweight. In addition, his energy input is
more than his output so there is not balance causing him to become overweight. Also he is not having any
physical activities to release some of these fats.
[2 marks]
c Explain why Peter may gain more weight if he keeps eating a lot of sugary foods.
Because the energy input will resume more than the output when he is not having physical activities also
[1 mark]
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d Suggest one piece of information from the biscuit label that might cause Peter to think that
the biscuits are not a problem to eat.
That the biscuits have 30% of fat reduced.
[1 mark]
e Suggest one reason why Peter should lose some weight.
Peter should lose some weight to prevent having breathing difficulties.
[1 mark]
f Peter needs about 9000 kJ per day. How many grams of biscuits would he have to eat to
get all the energy he needs for one day?
500g
[1 mark]
9 Vijay wants to see how saliva affects starch. He takes five test tubes, each containing 5 cm3 of
starch suspension. To each test tube he adds 1 cm3 of saliva. He then puts the tubes into water
baths at different temperatures. Every 10 minutes he takes one drop from each tube and mixes
the drop with iodine solution on a well tray and looks for a black colour. His results look like this:
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a What is the substance Vijay is trying to show using iodine solution? Tick one box.
A sugar
B protein
C starch
D fat
[1 mark]
b After 40 minutes, the sample taken from the tube at 25 °C does not produce a black colour
with iodine solution. What type of substance in saliva causes this to happen? Tick one box.
A enzyme
B spit
C chemical
D bile
[1 mark]
c At what temperature does the saliva work the fastest?
37 degrees celsius.
[1 mark]
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