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Purpose of F.K. in a table is to ensure referential integrity. i.e the f.k of one table can only have the values that are in some unique/primary key of referenced table (or f.k. will have NULL VALUE), it can not have any unmatched values.
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 foreign key is a field (or collection of fields) in one table that uniquely identifies a row of another table

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