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Science Unit 3 Lesson 5 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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long tube that begins in your throat and moves from the mouth to the stomach | esophagus |
a muscular bag that mashes food and mixes the food with digestive juices | stomach |
long coiled tube that digests food and absorbs nutrients you body needs from the digested food | small intestine |
large tube that soaks up water and minerals and leaves only the waste | large intestine |
makes a juice called bile | liver |
stores bile from the liver and sends it to the small intestine only when food passes through | gallbladder |
makes juices that are released into the small intestine | pancreas |
way to measure how much energy your body will get from food | calories |
lists the amount of important nutrients food contains | nutrition label |
helps you make smart decisions about how much of a food your should eat to get the right amount of nutrients in your diet | serving size |
tells you what percent of a nutrient a serving of the food will provide compared to how much you should get in a full day | % Daily Value |
filters the bold and rids the body of waste urine | urinary system |
mostly water that is released from the body | sweat |
organs that remove wastes from the blood | kidneys |
waste material that is filtered from the kidneys | urine |
tubes that take urine to the bladder | ureters |
stores urine and then releases it from the body | bladder |
small tube that takes the urine from the bladder to the outside of the body | urethra |
the master gland that produces hormones that tell the other glands what to do | pituitary gland |
produces a hormone that lets your body use energy | thyroid |
gland that produce a hormone called adrenalin | adrenal gland |
produces a hormone that controls the sugar in your blood | pancreas |