Question | Answer |
What allows you to taste food? | Tongue |
What Moistens Food? | Saliva |
What Pushes food around in you mouth? | Tongue |
What Tears and Crushes food into small pieces? | Teeth |
What contains enzymes that help break down food? | Saliva |
What is the clear liquid in the mouth that begins the digestive process? | Saliva |
What is the Squeezing Movements made by the Esophagus Muscles as food moves to the stomach called? | Peristalsis |
Between the Esophagus and the Stomach is a ring of muscles that control the opening to the stomach and this is called what? | A Sphincter |
The Flap of tissue that closes to keep food out of the trachea is called the what? | Epiglottis |
What is the Mixture of Enzymes, Water, and Hydrochloric acid that helps the stomach break down food called? | Gastric Juices |
The process of Breaking down Food into forms the body can use is called what? | Digestion |
The organs that break down food form the what? | The Digestive System |
The path food follows through the digestive system is called the what? | The Digestive Tract |
The tongue is covered with Special Cells that react to chemicals in the food. These cells are called what? | Taste Buds |
What Connects the Throat to the Stomach? | The Esophagus |
What is a Stretchy Storage Bag in the digestive tract called? | The Stomach |
The Stomach turns food into a Liquid Mixture called what? | Chyme |
Name the four (4) basic tastes? | Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Salty |
Where is the stomach located in the body? | Below the ribcage |
What are two ways in which the Stomach Works on food? | Mechanically and Chemically |
What Filters Poisons and Wastes from the blood? | Liver |
What Produces Insulin? | Pancreas |
What Makes Enzymes that break down foods? | Pancreas |
What Stores excess Bile and releases it when needed? | Gallbladder |
What Produces Bile? | Liver |
Nutrients from food are absorbed into the blood, as the Chyme passes through the what? | Small intestine |
The Small Intestine is lined with tiny fingerlike structures called what? | Villi |
Water and Salts are absorbed by the body as the chyme passes through the what? | Large Intestine |
What provides stored Energy and helps Insulate the body: | Fats |
What are the main source of energy for the body? | Carbohydrates |
What are used to build and repair the body? | Proteins |
Name the kinds of nutrients a healthy body needs? | Protiens, Minerals, Fats, Carbohydrates and Water |
Is it better to eat a variety of foods or the same kind of food all the time? | Variety |
Why is it better to eat a Variety of Foods? | Because it is the best way to get a proper balance of nutrients. |
Why does the body need Water? | The body needs water because it helps to digest food and some nutrients need water to be used |
Other than eating the right kinds of foods, what else is an important part of good nutrition? | Exercise |
What is the item called that shows the different kinds of food you should eat every day? | Food Pyramid |
Meat, peas, nuts, seeds, and beans are all good sources of what? | Protein |
The wider stripes on the Pyramid mean that you should eat (More Or Less) foods from those groups than from the groups with thinner stripes? | More |
Foods in what group provide Calcium for your body? | Dairy |
You should eat vegetables of all different what? | Colors |