Anatomy of Digestive System
The cavity containing the tongue and teeth, where food is mechanically mashed up.
What is the mouth?
Name two types of glands in the digestive process.
What are salivary glands, gastric glands, and intestinal glands?
Digestion, put simply, is this.
What is the transformation of food into nutrients.
The food wheel is broken into this many sections.
What is six?
This is a deficit or surplus of nutrients or energy.
What is malnutrition?
These are the two functions of the digestive system.
What are digestion of food and absorption of nutrients?
The digestive glands do this.
What is secrete substances into the digestive tract?
A bolus is this.
What is a mixture of ground up food and saliva formed in the mouth during mechanical digestion?
True or False:
According to the food wheel, almost half of your intake of food should be fresh produce such as fruits and vegetables, or body regulating foods.
True
Name three very common types of adverse reactions or allergies in food.
What is lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance (coeliac disease)
Nuts, eggs, seafood/shellfish?
Intestinal villi increase what in the small intestine?
What is increase nutrient absorption?
What is increase surface area?
This is the largest organ in the body, responsible for producing bile, and cleaning the blood of harmful toxins, including alcohol.
What is the liver?
Digestion involves these four phases.
What are mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation?
Name five foods that should be eaten occasionally and in moderation according to the food pyramid.
What are Sweets, Junk food, candy, cake, chocolate?
Name three food safety measures.
What are washing foods we eat raw, cleaning utensils used for cooking and eating regularly, and putting foods that need to be kept cold in the refrigerator?
The digestive tract is a long tube made up of these six parts of the body.
What are the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.
Name three types of substance released into the digestive tract by digestive glands.
What is saliva, bile, pancreatic juice, gastric juice, protective mucous and intestinal juice.
The process of absorption involves nutrients crossing the intestinal wall into this.
What is the circulatory system?
Group 3 and 4 foods (meat, eggs, fish, nuts) are high in this essential nutrient.
What is protein?
Name two disorders related to undernutrition.
What are Rickets, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, gaiter, scurvy?
This cartilaginous membrane stops food from getting into the Larynx.
What is the epiglottis?
The liver stores bile in the gallbladder, which is then released into this organ during digestion.
What is the duodenum?
The digestion of carbohydrates begins here.
What is the mouth?
This is the bottom layer of the food pyramid.
What is maintaining a healthy lifestyle?
piece of glass in your food is this type of contaminant.
What is physical?