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IGCSE: Y9 Food and Nutrition Class & No.:

Unit 1 (Human Nutrition) Quiz Parent Signature:

IGCSE Y9 Food Technology

Unit 1: Human Nutrition Quiz

Answering Questions
Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer: 8+0=

A. 9 B. 7 C. 8 D. 0
C is the best answer so it is circled.

True or False A01 A02

If it is true, just write “true” in the blanks. If it is false, write 16 marks 13 marks
“false”, then correct the statement.

Satement: Triangle has 4 sides

Correct Answer: Triangle has 3 sides.

Open-ended Questions A03 Total Marks

Answer the questions with full sentences unless it is a short 1 mark Out of 30
question.

[Short Question] What is 8+3?

Correct Answer: 11 Incorrect Answer: It is 11.
Part 1: Multiple Choice Questions (4 marks) A01

Answer the questions like the examples in the cover page.

1. What wouldn’t your diet affect?

A. Whether you would eat more

B. Whether you would be healthy or not

C. Whether you will have a chance of disease

2. Which of the following is not a type of micronutrient?

A. Vitamin C B. Acetic Acid

C. Ethanoic Acid D. Vitamin K

3. What is a way to prevent defincincy disease?

A. Eat up chopped ingredients from 1 week ago

B. Eating more wholesome food

C. Changing the diet into whole vegetarian diet

D. Prolong the cook of every dish in meals.

4. What is the difference between malnutrition and undernutrition?

Malnutrition Undernutrition

A. Focuses on your diet Focuses on particular nutrient

B. Focuses on your diet Focuses on micronutrients

C. Focuses on a particular nutrient Focuses on your diet

D. Focuses on micronutrients Focuses on energy nutrients

Part 2: True or False Questions (6 marks) A01

Answer the questions like the examples in the cover page.

5. The food pyramid is a good example of a balanced diet. [1]

True or false: ______________________

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6. Metabolism relies on energy to break down in order to produce new energy. [2]

True or false: ______________________

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7. The energy produced from metabolism is used to create new carbonhydrates like
DNA. [2]

True or false: ______________________

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8. Nutrients that could affect malnutrition includes carbohydrates, fat, or vitamins. [1]

True or false: ______________________

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Part 3: Open-ended Questions (20 marks)

Answer the questions like the example in the cover page. If you see only a short line, it
expects a short answer, and vice versa.

Answer questions 9-13 with the situation below:

A young child was born underweight and when he grew up, his mother died. Doctors
said that his mother died of starvation. The yound child was devastated, having no
mother, and his father left him, he is very poor. He didn’t really feel like learning and
lost weight gradually and lied down just like his mom.

9. What is the type of nutrition situation was the young child’s mom in? [1] A01

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10. Describe how starvation works. [2] A01

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11. What nutrition situation does starvation includes in? [2] A01

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12. What nutrition situations might the little child may be in? [1] A01

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13. If the little child was still living, what nutritional advice should he receive? [1] A02

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The graph below shows the number of children being underweight under the age of 5
in different countries and the world. Read the graph and answer the questions 14-15.

Source: Our World in Data

14. Describe the trend. [2] A02

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15. Explain why you have come to that decision in question 14. [3] A02

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16. Explain why countries Bolivia and China have lower percentage of children being
underwieght (discuss economically, environmentally, socially). [3] A02 [1] A03

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17. Explain why the world’s has a overall decrease in children under the age of 5 being
underweight. [4] A02

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