Food and Energy
Healthy Eating
Digestive Process Begins
Final Digestion and Absorption
Key Terms
100
These two are why the body needs food.
What are nutrients and energy?
100
the food group that you should eat at least six servings of foods each day?
What is the bread and cereal group
100
fluid in your mouth that starts chemical digestion
What is Saliva?
100
Where most nutrients are absorbed into the blood
What is the Small Intestine
100
Substances in foods that your body needs
What are Nutrients
200
The term for how energy in foods is measured
What is a Calorie?
200
These can tell you how to make healthy food choices
What is a food label?
200
starting point of mechanical digestion
What is the mouth?
200
Tiny structures that gives the small intestine such a large surface area
What is the Villi
200
Food group that you should eat sparingly
What are oils and sugars
300
The two different types of Carbohydrates
What are Simple and Complex Carbohydrates
300
These tell you the percentages of the nurtitional content of how one serving fits into someone diet each day
Percent Daily Value
300
Process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of your digestive system into your blood
What is Absorption
300
Main job of large intestine
What is Remove water from wastes
300
Process by which breaking down food into tiny pieces
What is Digestion?
400
Proteins that are made up of small units that link together chemically to form a large protein molecule
What is Amino Acids
400
These help us keep us alert so we can check food so we dont get sick
What are Ingredients
400
Involuntary muscle waves that keep food moving in one direction?
What is Peristalsis
400
The substance that breaks up fat particles
What is the Bile
400
Process of wastes passing out of the body
What is Elimination?
500
Nutrients that are not made by living things
What are minerals.
500
What are the three main food groups?
What are grains, vegetables, and milk
500
Seals of the windpipe, preventing the food from entering
What is the Epiglottis
500
Helps the large intestine remove water from wastes and keeps digestive system working properly.
What is Fiber?
500
The other factor along with starches and proteins that are broken down by the small intestine
What are Fats?
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