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WJEC GCSE Science Double Award Digestion and circulation (Unit 1) overview quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which organ makes bile?

  2. Which is an example of mechanical digestion?

  3. What does the enzyme lipase break fats down into?

  4. Which food test needs to be heated in a water bath?

  5. Iodine solution turns blue-black. What does this show is present?

  6. Which adaptation of a villus shortens the diffusion distance for absorbed food?

  7. How can glucose be absorbed when its concentration in the gut is lower than in the blood?

  8. Why is the wall of the left ventricle thicker than the right ventricle?

  9. Which blood vessel has valves to stop blood flowing backwards?

  10. What is a double circulatory system?

  11. Which component of blood helps it to clot at a wound?

  12. Why do red blood cells have no nucleus?

  13. Coronary heart disease is caused by fatty material building up in which vessels?

  14. What is the main job of a stent in treating coronary heart disease?