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Name

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Class

1 a The mouth contains teeth. What do teeth do to our food when we chew?

[1 mark]
b What are the names of the organs labelled
in the diagram?
Organ A is

mouth
A

Organ B is
Organ C is
Organ D is

[ 2 marks]

B
C

c What occurs in organ A?

[1 mark]
2 John has become overweight in the last few years. He has changed jobs from being
a coalminer to working in an office.

a Why do you think that John has become overweight?

[21 mark]
b His doctor says that he runs the risk of a health problem if he continues to put
on weight. What is this health risk?
[21 mark]

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c Suggest two ways in which John might lose mass.

i
ii
[1 mark]
3 a Name one food that contains a lot of protein.

[1 mark]
b What are proteins used for in the body?

[1 mark]
4 Look at this nutrition information label:
KLOGGS SUPERFLAKES
Amount per 100 g
Energy
Carbohydrate

1300 kJ
66 g

Protein

5g

Fat

5g

Fibre

6g

Calcium

30 mg

a What does the kJ stand for in the energy row?

[1 mark]
b What type of food substances are calcium compounds?

[1 mark]
c Why is fibre important in the diet?

[1 mark]
d If you add up the masses of the food substances there appears to be nearly 18 g
missing. What substance makes up this 18 g?

[1 mark]
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5 Look at the drawing below.

a In which organ are these structures found?

[1 mark]
b What name is given to these structures?

[1 mark]
c How do these structures help food be absorbed?

[1 mark]
6 The diagram shows a model that can be used to represent what happens in the
digestive system.

rubber band

boiling tube
Visking tubing
starch and saliva mixture
water

An enzyme in saliva digests starch into sugar. The apparatus above was left
at 37 C. After 5 minutes the contents of the Visking tubing and the water
around it were tested for starch and for sugar.
a Where will starch be found?
[1 mark]
b Where will sugar be found?
[1 mark]
c In the model, what does the water represent?
[1 mark]
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7 a Blood plasma contains digested substances dissolved in it. One of them is the
energy source for respiration. What is the name of this substance?

[1 mark]
b Respiration releases energy in cells. List two ways in which the body uses
this energy.
i
ii
[1 mark]
8 The graph shows how
the activity of a human
digestive enzyme varies
with temperature.

Speed at which
enzime works

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20
30
40
Temperature (C)

50

60

a The enzyme works best at about 37 C. Why do you think that is?

[1 mark]
In another experiment, the activity of the enzyme was measured at three pHs: pH 2,
pH 7 and pH 9.
b If the enzyme is produced by the stomach, at which pH would it work best?

[1 mark]
c If the enzyme is produced by the small intestine, at which pH would it work
best?

[1 mark]
d The enzyme did not digest starch at any pH. Explain why.

[1 mark]
e Apart from the stomach, mouth and small intestine, name another organ that
produces digestive enzymes.
[1 mark]
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