Digestive system
Nutrition
Chemical reactions
Investigations
Plant life
100

The process through which food is broken down into absorbable chunks

What is digestion?

100

The category of food that includes beans and eggs

What is protein?

100

The process through which oxygen enters the blood stream and carbon dioxide leaves

What is gas exchange? (Diffusion allowable too)

100

The energy released by 3g of chips if 1g of chips releases 1000kJ of energy

What is 3000 kJ?

100

The layer of cells in a leaf near the top where photosynthesis occurs

What are the palisade cells?

200

The motion of muscles in your digestive tract that helps move food and liquids through your digestive system.

What is peristalsis? 

200

The mineral used for bone growth

What is calcium?

200

The two products of respiration

What are water + carbon dioxide?

200

The energy transfer in burning food

What is chemical -> thermal?

200

The small holes that allow for movement of air into a plant

What are the stoma?

300

The location where water is absorbed from the bolus

Where is the large intestine?

300

The mineral required for blood cell production

What is iron?

300

The cell organelle where photosynthesis takes place

What is a chloroplast?

300

The substance used to test for starch

What is Iodine?

300

The adaptation that roots have to help with water retrieval

What is a large surface area?

400

The organ where bile is stored

What is the gallbladder?

400

The mineral required for flower and fruit growth

What is Potassium?

400

The cell organelle where respiration occurs

What are the mitochondria?

400

The equipment used to measure the energy content of food

What is a calorimeter? 

400

The tubes that allow water movement through a plant

What are the xylem?

500
This is broken down by amylase in the spit 

What is starch?

500

The names of the 5 food groups

What are:

  • Fruit and vegetables
  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins
  • Dairy
  • Fats and oils
500

The use for the formula

100x (Original mass-final mass)/Original mass


What is % change in mass?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!

Describe the practical for identifying sugars in food

Benedicts solution

Heat with a water bath

Change from clear blue -> brick red

500

The name for the chains of sugar created by a plant

What is cellulose?