Essential Nutrients
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Digestive System
Vocabulary
More about the Digestive System
100

The essential nutrient that helps to regulate body temperature, transport nutrients to their cells and eliminate waste from the body.

What is water?

100

This happens when the water in your body drops below the level needed for normal body functions.

What is dehydration?

100
This is the tube that food goes down after it comes from the mouth.
What is the esophagus?
100

This means having not enough of something or a shortage

What is a deficiency?

100

The chemical and mechanical process of breaking down food to release nutrients in a form your body can absorb for use

What is digestion?

200
The essential nutrient that is necessary for healthy skin, hair and other hormonal actions that is used as stored energy.
What is fat?
200

These types of carbohydrates are found in starches and fiber.

What are complex carbohydrates?

200
This is where most of the nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream.
What is the small intestine?
200
The process in which the body takes in and uses nutrients.
What is nutrition?
200

What are the two types of digestion?

What are mechanical and chemical digestion?

300

This essential nutrients role is to build and repair tissues, help body make important substances regulate body processes, and supply energy

What is protein?

300

Name the 6 essential nutrients.

What are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water?

300

This is the last section of the digestive system, where water is absorbed from food and the remaining material is eliminated from the body

What is the large intestine?

300
These are substances that the body needs to regulate body functions, promote growth, repair body tissues and obtain energy.
What are nutrients?
300

These contractions of smooth muscle help to move food down to the stomach.

What is peristalsis?

400
An organic nutrient often found in food we eat and made to help the body with many different processes to help function normally.
What is a vitamin?
400

This type of Cholesterol is referred to as " good cholesterol"

What is HDL?

400

This is an organ where bile is stored.

What is the gallbladder?

400
The amount of energy released when nutrients are burned is measured in these units.
What are calories?
400
This is where most of digestion occurs

What is the small intestine?

500
The essential nutrient that comes from rock or soil.
What is a mineral?
500

These types of vitamins are dissolved in water and are not stored in the body

What are water-soluble vitamins

500
This is a large organ in the body and has over 500 functions. One of the main functions of this organ is to filter the body from toxins.
What is the liver?
500

This means having too much of something or possibly poisonous

What is toxicity? 
500

These three organs are called accessory organs because food never actually passes through them.

What are the liver, pancreas and gallbladder?

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