Pellagra
Vocabulary
Organs
Digestion
Role Plays
100

This food was once thought to be the cause of Pellagra.

What is corn?

100

The small unit that makes up all living organisms.

What is a cell?

100

This organ is where nutrients from food are absorbed into our body.

What is the small intestine?

100

These start the process of mechanical digestion.

What are teeth?

100

This is the percent of car accidents caused by impaired drivers.

What is 40 percent?
200

This person studied Pellagra and eventually figured out what was causing the disease.

Who is Dr. Goldberger?

200

To make a conclusion based up known facts.

What is an inferernce?

200

This organ is a stretchy muscular sack that holds and churns our food.

What is the stomach?

200

This is a sore in the lining of our stomach.

What is an ulcer?

200

This is the average weight of a human liver.

What is 3 pounds?

300

These two groups of people were experimented on during the Pellagra breakout.

Who were orphans and prisoners?

300

A group of organs that work together to perform a specific function.

What is an organ system?

300

This organ is often called "the food tube."

What is the esophagus?

300

This transports nutrients from our food to all parts of our body.

What is blood?

300

This organ can regenerate.

What is the liver?

400

Pellagra broke out in early 1900 in this region of the country.

What is The South?

400

Any description or measurement made by using the senses or tools.

What is observation?

400

This organ acts like a pump and works every minute of our life.

What is the heart?

400

This is another name for the large intestine.

What is the colon?

400

This is any substance that can cause damage to your body.

What is a toxin?

500

This was the actual cause of Pellagra.

Not enough vitamin B (Niacin) in peoples' diets.

500

The levels of structure in an organism.

What is levels of organization?

500

This organ breaks down toxins, digests fats and regulates cholesterol and sugar in our blood.

What is the liver?

500

This is the cause of the odor in our solid waste.

What is bacteria?

500

If a mother drinks alcohol while pregnant, this can happen.

What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?