The Digestive Journey
This long, muscular tube moves food from your mouth down to your stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This nutrient is known as the body's main source of quick energy
What are carbohydrates?
This is your body's armor and the first line of defense against outside germs
What is skin?
If a person has a stomach ache and is unable to absorb nutrients, this system is failing
What is the digestive system?
Doing this for 20 seconds with soap is the #1 way to help your immune system
What is washing your hands?
Most nutriets are absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of this 20 foot long intestine.
What is the small intestine?
Your body uses this nutrient to build and repair muscles and tissues
What is protein?
These specialized blood cells act like detectives to find an destroy pathogens.
What are white blood cells?
If a person gets sick constantly from every germ they meet, this system might not be working correctly.
What is the immune system?
This helps your immune system practice fighting a germ without you actually getting sick.
What is a vaccine?
This organ produces strong acid to break down food into a liquid
What is stomach?
These are units of energy we measure in the food we eat
What are calories?
This sticky substance in your nose and throat traps bacteria before it can get into your lungs.
What is mucus?
This symptom is actually a sign that your immune system is "turning up the heat" to kill germs
What is a fever?
Drinking plenty of this helps your digestive system move waste out of your body
What is water?
This is taking place when chemicals and enzymes break down food into tiny molecules
What is digestion (or chemical digestion)?
The indigestible part of plant foods help keep the digestive system moving smoothly
What is fiber?
These are foreign invaders, like viruses or bacteria, that can make you sick.
What are pathogens or germs?
Scurvy is a failure/sickness caused by a lack of vitamin c. This is an example of a failure in this category
What is nutrition/diet?
True or False: Eating a variety of colorful vegetables helps your immune system stay strong
What is true?
These finger-like bumps in the small intestine increase surface area to soak up as many nutrients as possible
What are villi?
Besides energy, the body uses food to do this
This type of white blood cell tags the pathogen so the B-cells can create antibodies, so it can recognize and fight a specific germ faster next time
What is macrophage?
If good bacteria in your gut are destroyed, this system will have a hard time breaking down food
What is the digestive system?
Exercising helps your digestive and immune system and your digestive system in these ways...
What is it speeds up the movement of food (digestion) and circulates the white blood cells faster (immune)?