Systems & Symptoms
Small or Large Intestine?
Vocabulary
Digestion & Absorption
Burning Fat
100

The body system affected by abdominal cramps.

What is the muscular system? 

100

The part of the body that Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects.

What is the large intestine? 

100

The amount of water vapor in the air.

What is humidity?

100

This molecule is not digested, but excreted from the body.

What is fiber? 

100
Matter is able to escape in this system.

What is an open system? 

200

The body system affected by diarrhea.

What is the digestive system? 
200

The part of the body that Diverticular Disease affects.

What is the large intestine? 

200

The smallest units of life; in the small intestine, they act as doors to allow food into the bloodstream.

What are cells?

200

These sized molecules are absorbed in the small intestine.

What are small molecules? 


200

Matter remains stable in this system.

What is a closed system? 

300

The body system affected by rapid heartbeat while exercising.

What is the circulatory system? 

300

The part of the body that celiac disease affects.

What is the small intestine?

300
When healthy, these are tall structures on the walls of the small intestine. When unhealthy, they are flat. 

What are villi?

300

These sized molecules are broken down in the stomach 

What are large molecules? 


300

The element names for N, O, C, and H.

What are nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen? 
400

The body system affected by difficulty breathing while exercising.

What is the respiratory system? 

400

The part of the body that colitis affects.

What is the large intestine?

400

Any material that can react with other substances to produce energy. Can be food or non-food. 

What is a fuel? 
400

the process of molecules crossing the walls of the small intestine

What is absorption? 

400

These two gases increased during the fat burning reaction.

What are carbon dioxide and water vapor? 

500

The body system affected by brain fog.

What is the nervous system? 

500

The part of the body that Crohn's disease affects.

What is the small intestine?

500

The name of the procedure in which a doctor feeds a camera on a tube down the throat to take pictures of the inside of the body.

What is an endoscopy?

500

These are the broken-down versions of complex carbs, fats, and proteins. 

What are glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids?

500

These are the reactants of the fat burning reaction.

What are vegetable oil, oxygen, and fire?