Question: Body fat is used as a source of energy when not enough energy is available from food. This process involves:
Answer Choices: releasing fatty acids that have been stored in the pancreas transporting cholesterol by the muscles to be broken down for energy using up proteins before fats for energy breaking down carbohydrates by the liver to be used for energy
Answer: transporting cholesterol by the muscles to be broken down for energy
Question: Switching to locally grown foods helps:
Answer Choices: save money prevent the development of foodborne illness limit damage done to the environment increase your intake of veggies and fruits
Answer: limit damage done to the environment
Question: A legitimate reason to buy organic foods is to:
Answer Choices: consume higher amounts of pesticides increase nutrient intake without eating a variety of foods avoid imported foods support sustainable agriculture
Answer: support sustainable agriculture
Question: What is a strategy to make melons (of species cucumis) riper?
Answer Choices: Discard the core or heart of a head of cabbage. Rip into the rind of an orange. Avoid the consumption of organically grown foods. Cook cod and put parsley and fish into the dish.
Answer: The correct answer is not provided.
Question: Examples of the Dirty Dozen include:
Answer Choices: strawberries, apples, grapes grapes, tomatoes, honeydew melon corn, bananas, cabbage blueberries, kiwi, avocado
Answer: strawberries, apples, grapes
Question: Organically raised animals cannot be given antibiotics to prevent illness.
Answer Choices: True False
Answer: True
Question: What is a beneficial reason for purchasing organically grown fruits and vegetables rather than conventionally grown foods?
Answer Choices: Organic foods are cheaper than conventional foods. Organic foods always have a higher antioxidant content than conventional foods. Organic foods are grown using sustainable agricultural techniques. Organic foods are produced with a reduced risk of chronic disease.
Answer: Organic foods are grown using sustainable agricultural techniques.
Question: Which of the following are not environmental benefits of organic agriculture.
Answer Choices: Better water quality Better soil quality Improved biodiversity Better use of genetically modified seeds
Answer: Better use of genetically modified seeds
Question: The large ears of sweet corn available today are the result of:
Answer Choices: evolution natural selection genetic engineering selective breeding irradiation
Answer: selective breeding
Question: Irradiation exposes foods to ionizing radiation, killing bacteria.
Answer Choices: True False
Answer: True
Question: According to the Environmental Working Group, the use of GMOs has been successful in improving world hunger.
Answer Choices: True False
Answer: False
Question: In the mouth, chewing food is considered what form of digestion?
Answer Choices: Chemical Mechanical
Answer: Mechanical
Question: The wavelike muscular squeezing of the esophagus, stomach, and small intestine that pushes their contents along is called:
Answer Choices: Chewing Peristalsis Mastication Churning Rhythm
Answer: Peristalsis
Question: Which of the following occurs during mechanical digestion?
Answer Choices: Chewing food into small enough pieces to swallow Chewing to release nutrients from undigestible skins Peristaltic contractions to move food through the digestive canal All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Question: _______ digestion begins in the small intestine.
Answer Choices: Protein Carbohydrate Fat Fiber
Answer: Fat
Question: Our gut bacteria can impact the following:
Answer Choices: Cravings Immunity Weight control Chronic Illness All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Question: Which organ completes the absorption process of digestion?
Answer Choices: Esophagus Stomach Small intestine Large intestine Mouth
Answer: Large intestine