Food and Energy
Healthy Eating
Digestive Process Begins
Final Digestion and Absorption
Key Terms
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This is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one Celsius degree.
What is a calorie?
100
Thirty percent of your daily dietary intake should come from one of these two categories.
What are grains/carbs or vegetables?
100
This is the fluid in your mouth that releases enzymes, starting chemical digestion.
What is saliva?
100
This is where most nutrients are absorbed into the blood.
What is the small intestine?
100
This is number 2 on the diagram below.
What is the esophagus?
200
These are the substances in food that provide the raw materials and energy the body needs to carry out all the essential processes.
What are nutrients?
200
This can show you the nutritional content of food purchased in a store.
What is a nutritional label?
200
Mechanical digestion begins here.
What is the mouth?
200
These are tiny hair-like structures that give the small intestine a larger surface area.
What are villi?
200
This is number 4 on the diagram below.
What is the pancreas?
300
These are the two different types of carbohydrates.
What are simple and complex carbohydrates?
300
This is the most important nutrient in your body.
What is water?
300
This is the process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of your digestive system into your blood.
What is absorption?
300
Water is removed in preparation for elimination in this organ.
What is the large intestine?
300
This is number 7 on the diagram below.
What is liver?
400
This type of fat is solid at room temperature.
What is saturated fat?
400
Less than 10% of your diet should come from one of these two food groups.
What is dairy or sweets?
400
This is the involuntary muscle action that keeps food moving in one direction.
What is peristalsis?
400
This substance that breaks up fat particles is called ____________ and is produced in the ____________.
What is the bile, which is produced in the liver?
400
This is number 5 on the diagram below.
What is the small intestine?
500
These are nutrients that are not made by living things.
What are minerals?
500
Vitamin K is another name for this nutrient.
What is potassium?
500
This seals off the windpipe, preventing the food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
500
Mechanical digestion takes place in these two locations during the digestive process.
What are the mouth and the stomach?
500
This is number 3 on the diagram below.
What is the stomach?