Nutrients, Food,
Healthy Habits and Illness
Healthy Habits and Illness
Substances we obtain from food
What are nutrients?
Part of the digestive tract that contains the tongue and the teeth
What is the mouth?
Inhalation, gas exchange and exhalation
What are the three stages of breathing?
These vessels carry the blood from the organs to the heart
What are the veins?
The releasing of waste produced by our cells outside the body
What is excretion?
Some examples are: drinking lots of water, doing physical activity every day and sleeping 8-10 hours a night
What are healthy habits?
Ground food mixed with saliva
What is the bolus?
What are the lungs?
These vessels carry blood from the heart to the organs
What are the arteries?
The two parts of the excretory system
What are the kidneys and the urinary tract?
A state of physical, mental and social well-being
What is health?
This organ secretes bile and releases it into the small intestine
What is the liver?
Respiratory tract and the lungs
What are the two parts of the respiratory system?
Right atrium, left atrium, valves, right ventricle and left ventricle
What are the parts of the heart?
This organ filters the blood to clean it
What is the kidney?
All the food and water a person consumes that contains the right amount of each type of nutrient
What is a healthy diet?
These include salivary glands, the liver and the pancreas.
In the digestive system, what are the accessory organs?
Microscopic sacs surrounded by capillaries
What are the alveoli?
The three types of blood vessels
What are the capillaries, veins and arteries?
This organ stores urine
What is the bladder?
When something, like a disease, negatively affects our health for a period of time
What is illness?
The process of extracting nutrients from the food we eat
What is digestion?
Smaller branches of the bronchi
What are the bronchioles?
The blood travels between the heart and the lungs on this circuit
What is the pulmonary circuit?
The three parts of the urinary tract
What are the ureters, the bladder and the urethra?