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Year 7 Science — Vitamins and minerals

Tell vitamins from minerals, match each to the deficiency disease its long shortage causes, and say what the protective nutrients do.

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Before you start

What each nutrient does for the body, and what goes wrong without it.

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  1. 1. Vitamin A → loss of vision
  2. 2. Vitamin C → scurvy
  3. 3. Calcium → bone and tooth decay
  4. 4. Iron → anaemia
  5. 5. Iodine → goitre

Each row pairs a protective nutrient with what a long shortage of it brings on. The disease is the clue that points back to the missing nutrient.

  1. 1.A cook boils vegetables hard and for a long time. Which nutrient does the chapter say is lost that way?

    • a) Iron
    • b) Calcium
    • c) Vitamin C
    • d) Iodine

  2. 2.Sort each of these into vitamins and minerals.

    Groups: Vitamin · Mineral

    • Iodine
    • Vitamin C
    • Iron
    • Calcium
    • Vitamin A
    • Vitamin D

  3. 3.Which two foods does the chapter list as sources of vitamin C?

    • a) Butter and ghee
    • b) Carrot and milk
    • c) Orange and lemon
    • d) Rice and wheat

  4. 4.Match each nutrient to the disease its long shortage brings on.

    • Vitamin A
    • Vitamin B1
    • Vitamin C
    • Vitamin D
    • Iodine
    • Iron
    • scurvy
    • goitre
    • beriberi
    • anaemia
    • loss of vision
    • rickets

  5. 5.Extra nutrients are added to a food while it is being processed. What is that called?

    • a) Germination
    • b) Evaporation
    • c) Filtration
    • d) Fortification

  6. 6.Which two foods does the chapter list as sources of vitamin A?

    • a) Sugar and honey
    • b) Orange and lemon
    • c) Pulses and eggs
    • d) Carrot and milk

  7. 7.In parts of India, swelling at the front of the neck was widespread until a change was made to common salt. What was the missing nutrient?

    • a) Iron
    • b) Vitamin D
    • c) Iodine
    • d) Calcium

  8. 8.Why are millets also called nutri-cereals?

    • a) They can be eaten without being cooked
    • b) They carry no carbohydrates
    • c) They are the cheapest cereals to grow
    • d) They supply vitamins, minerals such as iron and calcium, and dietary fibre

Answer key — Year 7 Science — Vitamins and minerals

  1. 1. c) Vitamin C
  2. 2. Vitamin A → Vitamin; Vitamin C → Vitamin; Vitamin D → Vitamin; Calcium → Mineral; Iodine → Mineral; Iron → Mineral
  3. 3. c) Orange and lemon
  4. 4. Vitamin A → loss of vision; Vitamin B1 → beriberi; Vitamin C → scurvy; Vitamin D → rickets; Iodine → goitre; Iron → anaemia
  5. 5. d) Fortification
  6. 6. d) Carrot and milk
  7. 7. c) Iodine
  8. 8. d) They supply vitamins, minerals such as iron and calcium, and dietary fibre