Nutrition
The main source of energy for the body
What is Carbohydrates?
Nutrients from food are absorbed into the blood as the chyme passes through this
What is the small intestine?
The process of breaking down food into forms the body can use
What is digestion?
This pushes food around in your mouth
What is the tongue?
The five major food groups
What are fruits, protein, dairy, vegetables, and grains?
Provides stored energy and helps insulate the body
What is fats?
The green liquid produced by the liver that helps break down fats
What is bile?
The squeezing movements made by the esophagus muscles as food moves to the stomach
What is peristalsis?
This helps to make food soft and wet, and helps break down food for digestion
What is saliva?
Small intestine is lined with these tiny fingerlike structures
What is villi?
Used to build and repair the body
What are proteins?
This filters poisons and wastes from the blood and produces bile
What is the liver?
The path that food follows through the digestive system
What is the digestive tract?
This helps break down food into chyme and can also kill harmful bacteria you may have swallowed with your food
Water and salts are absorbed by the body as chyme passes through this
What is the large intestine?
These are necessary for the body to grow and work properly
What are vitamins and minerals?
This makes enzymes that break down food into nutrients that can be absorbed, and it produces insulin
What is the pancreas?
The stretchy storage bag in the digestive tract below the esophagus
What is the stomach?
The liquidlike mixture that the stomach turns food into
What is chyme?
A ring of muscles that controls the opening to the stomach
What is the sphincter?
This helps digest the food that you eat
What is water?
Stores excess bile from the liver and releases it when needed
What is the gallbladder?
The two ways in which the stomach works on food
What are mechanically and chemically?
The mixture of enzymes, water, and hydrochloric acid that helps the stomach break down food
What is gastric juices?
The four basic tastes
What are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter?