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Q1. What type of food is essential for growth and
repair?
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Q2. What type of food provides energy quite
quickly?
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Q3. What type of food provides an energy store
within the body?
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Q4. What is an insoluble carbohydrate with big
molecules?
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Q5. What are needed in very small amounts to keep body processes
working properly?
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Q6. What do you call essential elements, like
calcium for healthy bones?
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Q7. What keeps food moving through the digestive system?
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Q9. What do you call the organ where food is
absorbed into the blood?
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Q10. What is the tube from mouth to stomach
called?
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Q11. Where are faeces (mainly indigestible
foods) stored?
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Q13. What is the tiny finger shaped projection in the digestive system that helps absorb food into the bloodstream
called?
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Q14. What is the name of the semi-permeable tubing that only small
molecules can get through?
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Q15. What is the muscular organ in your
body that churns up food?
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Q16. What are the organic catalysts that speed up chemical reactions called?
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Q17. What building blocks are proteins
made of?
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Q18. What is needed to drive all life processes?
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Q19. When a diet has a healthy mixture of
different foods it is ... ?
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Q20. What is the technical term for all the
foods that you eat?