Food Safety

6. chemicals that are used to break down food into simple nutrients
7. creature that lives on or in another living creature and takes its food from it without giving any benefit in return
9. tiny hairlike structures that stick out from the surface of microbes
11. plantlike living things such as mushrooms or yeast
13. a type of fungus that can grow on or in a wide range of substances
14. one-celled creature that is larger and more complicated than a bacterium
16. when something is overrun with harmful or irritating creatures such as insects
18. condition in which the body overreacts to something that is breathed in, eaten, or gets on the skin.
19. building blocks of living things

1. chemical that nourishes living things
2. drug or natural chemical that kills bacteria or stops them from growing
3. chemical that is used to kill insects or other animals that are pests like those that eat crops or cause disease
4. very tiny seed-like structure that a fungus uses to reproduce
5. microscopic living things, each one only a single cell - they do not have a nucleus
8. to become dirty or infected with disease microbes
10. in milk - to separate into a solid (curds) and a thin liquid (whey)
11. to turn sugar in food into another substance such as acid or alcohol by the action of tiny microbes
12. process in which milk is heated to a certain temperature for a certain period of time to kill harmful microbes
15. one-celled microbe that moves and catches food by sending out fingerlike structures called pseudopods
17. microscopic one-celled fungus