INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE

SUBJECT: SCIENCE Revision Worksheet No: 4

TOPIC : Food and Health STD : V
Coordinating Staff: Ms.Vidya Menon
Date of Issue: 30 – 05 - 16

Name of the student: __________________________ Class ___ Sec: _____ Roll No: ____

1) Name the following:

a) The nutrient that provides energy.

b) The nutrient essential for growth.

c) The component that acts as the medium for transport of nutrients in our body.

d) The nutrient that makes you obese when taken excess.

2) Tom looks pale and gets tired easily. He is deficient in which mineral? What is
he suffering from?

3) Name a nutrient present in the following food stuff:

a. b.

c. d.
4) Give one cause for the following diseases

a. Arthritis

b. Cancer

c. Malaria

d. Typhoid

5) Name the diseases caused by the lack of

a. Vitamin D

b. Vitamin C

c. Vitamin B1

d. Vitamin A

6) Name 2 ways by which communicable diseases spread. Name 2 disease causing

microbes.

7) What is a balanced diet?

8) How does vaccination help in preventing certain communicable diseases? At

what age are most vaccines given?

9) What is meant by hygiene? Give any two steps one must follow to maintain
good hygiene.

10) Differentiate between communicable and non communicable diseases. Give 1

example each.

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