Food & Energy
What is the name of the process that breaks down food into small nutrient molecules?
What is digestion.
What are the 2 types of digestion?
What are mechanical and chemical.
Where does most chemical digestion take place?
DAILY TRIPLE Where is the small intestine.
What vitamin is found in citrus fruits like oranges?
What is vitamin C.
What organ houses the salivary gland?
What is the mouth.
What are the substance in food that your body uses to carry out life essential processes?
What are nutrients
What is tne name of waves of muscular movements that moves food from the esophagus to the stomach?
What is peristalsis.
What are two organs that secrete enzymes into the small intestine?
What are the liver and pancreas.
DAILY DOUBLE What mineral is found in milk and is needed for healthy bones?
What is calcium.
What organ absorbs water and compacts waste?
What is the large intestine.
Of the 6 nutrients you get from food which one contains starches, sugars, and fibers?
What are carbohydrates.
DAILY DOUBLE What are the 2 organs where chemical and mechanical digestion take place?
What are the mouth and stomach.
What is the purpose of bile that is made in the liver?
What is to break down fats.
Name 2 of 4 vitamins stored in fatty tissue and are not dissolvable in water but do dissolve in fat?
What are vitamins K, A, D, or E.
DAILY DOUBLE What organ produces insulin?
What is the pancreas.
Of the 6 nutrients you get from food, which would contain chicken, beef, beans, and eggs?
What are proteins.
What are proteins that speed up chemical reactions called?
What are enxymes.
Other than storing some vitamins, what are two functions of the liver?
DAILY DOUBLE What is to produce bile and filter the blood.
What does insulin do?
What is regulate blood sugar levels.
What organ stores bile that is made in the liver?
What is the gallbladder.
DAILY DOUBLE Of the 6 nutrients you get from food, which is the most important?
Which is water.
What organ comes after the stomach?
What is the small intestine.
If the small intestine is longer than the large intestine why is it called the small intestine?
Why is because the diameter of the small intestine is less than the diameter of the large intestine.
DAILY DOUBLE What does the enzyme trypsin do?
What is digest proteins.
What is on the inside of lungs and the small intestine that will increase the total area of the organ?
What are villi.