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Grade 8 · Biology

Biology quiz for grade 8: Digestion and nutrition

This quiz helps revise “Digestion and nutrition” in Biology for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Food's route, Digestive juices, Movement & uptake, Digestion products, Healthy diet. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 13–14
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Digestion and nutrition

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Food's route

  1. 100

    What is the first part of the digestive tract, where food is chewed and mixed with saliva?

  2. 200

    What muscular tube carries a swallowed food bolus through the chest?

  3. 300

    What muscular organ churns…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What terminal storage chamber…

    In the game
  5. 500

    What cartilage flap folds…

    In the game

Digestive juices

  1. 100

    Which enzyme in saliva begins starch digestion?

  2. 200

    Which enzyme begins protein digestion in the strongly acidic part of the digestive tract?

  3. 300

    Which liver secretion emulsifies…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which substance creates the…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which enzyme performs most…

    In the game

Movement & uptake

  1. 100

    What involuntary wave-like contractions propel food along the digestive tract?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What finger-like mucosal projections increase absorption area in the small intestine?

  3. 300

    Which digestive-tract section absorbs…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which vessels inside each…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which vessel carries blood…

    In the game

Digestion products

  1. 100

    Into which monomers are dietary proteins ultimately broken down?

  2. 200

    What class includes glucose, fructose, and galactose, the final products of carbohydrate digestion?

  3. 300

    Into which compounds are…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which plant food component…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which two micronutrient groups…

    In the game

Healthy diet

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What type of cereal foods is preferred over refined versions in a healthy diet?

  2. 200

    Which two plant-food groups should people aged 10+ eat at least 400 g of daily, according to WHO?

  3. 300

    Which category of sweet…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which type of lipids…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which healthy-diet principle means…

    In the game

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