Digestion and Nutrition
Carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water are the main nutrient groups. This nutrient helps build muscles and repair your body.
What is a protein?
Your ability to see things in your periphery or the sides!
What is peripheral vision?
These tiny germs get into our cells and spread quickly, making us sick.
What are viruses?
The organ that pumps the blood all around your body.
What is the heart?
These organs help you breathe and take in oxygen.
What are the lungs?
Which organ carries food from the mouth to the stomach
Esophagus
It shrinks! The pupil is just a hole and you don't want extra light in your eyes
What does your pupil do when you're in a bright room?
This helps teach your body what a virus looks like so you won’t get as sick later.
What is a vaccine?
These blood vessels carry blood back to the heart.
What are the veins?
This muscle under your lungs helps you breathe in and out.
What is the diaphragm?
What liquid in your mouth starts breaking down food through chemical digestion as you chew?
Saliva
This is the amount of air your lungs can hold.
What is lung capacity?
These immune cells are called “killers” because they destroy infected cells.
What are T cells?
The heart is made mostly of this type of tissue that helps it squeeze (pump) the blood all around the body.
What is muscle?
This is the tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen enters the blood.
What are alveoli?
What organ is your stomach connected to that helps absorb nutrients from food?
Small Intestine
The brain makes decisions and sends messages, while nerves carry those messages through the body.
What is the difference between the brain and nerves?
Viruses can spread when you touch dirty surfaces and forget to do this afterward.
What is washing your hands?
Most people have this many chambers in their heart.
What is four chambers?
Breathing faster than normal is called this.
What is rapid breathing? (tachypnea)
Why is calcium important for your body, and name one food that is high in calcium.
Calcium helps build strong bones and teeth. Examples include milk, cheese, yogurt (dairies) and leafy green vegetables.
You check if the person is breathing, responding, and can see clearly.
What are the three things to check in an emergency?
These are special proteins made by B cells that stick to germs to help fight them.
What are antibodies?
This natural “spark plug” in your heart tells it when to beat.
What is the pacemaker or SA node?
This is the process of moving air in and out of the lungs.
What is ventilation?