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Substances in food that provide energy

and materials for cell development, growth

and repair

What are nutrients?

Takes place when food is chewed,

mixed, and churned

What is mechanical digestion?

Occurs when chemical reactions break down food

What is chemical digestion?

This moves food through the entire

digestive tract.

What is peristalsis?

Absorption of broken down food takes place in here.

What is the small intestine?

A type of protein that speeds up the rate of chemical reaction in

your body

What is an enzyme?

Increase the surface area of the small intestine allowing

more nutrients to be absorbed

What are villi?

Mechanical and chemical digestion

begin here

What is the mouth?

The accessory organs

What are Tongue, teeth, salivary glands,

liver, gallbladder, pancreas?

Automatically covers the opening to the

windpipe to prevent food from entering it

What is the epiglottis?

Most digestion takes place here.

What is the duodenum?

The solution from this organ helps neutralize

acid, digestion of carbs, proteins, fats and

makes insulin

What is the pancreas?

Produces digestive juices and bile to

break up fat particles

What is the liver?

Your body uses these for replacement and repair of body cells

and for growth

What are proteins?

Organic nutrients needed in small quantities for

growth, regulating body functions, and preventing

some diseases

What are vitamins?

This mineral helps with strong bones and teeth, muscle contraction, and storing energy

What is phosphorus?

Most nutrients can’t be used by

your body without this

What is water?

Need 3-5 servings from this group

What is the vegetable group?

Bananas, potatoes, nuts, meat and

oranges are a good source of this

What is potassium?

These are classified as saturated or unsaturated.

What are fats?

These are simple carbohydrates

What are sugars?

These are called complex

carbohydrates

What are starch and fiber?

These protein building blocks have to be supplied by the

foods you eat

What are essential amino acids?

Cholesterol is made here

What is the liver?

Bacteria live in these areas of your

digestive tract

What are the large intestine and the

mouth?

This is how hydrochloric acid

works in your stomach

What is work with pepsin to digest

protein and destroys bacteria in food

This is where absorption of

broken down food takes place

What is the small intestine?

The stomach produces mucus for this reason

What is makes food more slippery

and protects the stomach from acid

The major organs of the digestive

tract

What are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and

anus

These organs produce or store enzymes and other chemicals that

help break down food

What are the liver, gallbladder and

pancreas?

Make your wager

What would happen to some of the nutrients in chyme if the pancreas

did not secrete its solution into the small

intestine?

Food would be acidic in the remainder of the

digestive tract, possible causing ulcers