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4. Substances in food
that provide energy
and materials for cell
development, growth
and repair

5. What are
nutrients?

6. Takes place when
food is chewed,
mixed, and
churned

7. What is
mechanical
digestion?

8. Occurs when
chemical reactions
break down food

9. What is chemical
digestion?

10. This moves food
through the entire
digestive tract.

11. What is peristalsis?

12. Absorption of
broken down food
takes place in here.

13. What is the small
intestine?

14. A type of protein that
speeds up the rate of
chemical reaction in
your body

15. What is an
enzyme?

16. Increase the surface
area of the small
intestine allowing
more nutrients to be
absorbed

17. What are villi?

18. Mechanical and
chemical digestion
begin here

19. What is the mouth?

20. The accessory
organs

21. What are Tongue,
teeth, salivary glands,
liver, gallbladder,
pancreas?

22. Automatically covers
the opening to the
windpipe to prevent
food from entering it

23. What is the
epiglottis?

24. Most digestion
takes place here.

25. What is the
duodenum?

26. The solution from this
organ helps neutralize
acid, digestion of carbs,
proteins, fats and
makes insulin

27. What is the
pancreas?

28. Produces digestive
juices and bile to
break up fat
particles

29. What is the liver?

30. Your body uses these
for replacement and
repair of body cells
and for growth

31. What are proteins?

32. Organic nutrients needed
in small quantities for
growth, regulating body
functions, and preventing
some diseases

33. What are vitamins?

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

35. What is
phosphorus?

36. Most nutrients
can’t be used by
your body without
this

37. What is water?

38. Need 3-5 servings
from this group

39. What is the
vegetable group?

40. Bananas, potatoes,
nuts, meat and
oranges are a good
source of this

41. What is potassium?

42. These are classified
as saturated or
unsaturated.

43. What are fats?

44. These are simple
carbohydrates

45. What are sugars?

46. These are called
complex
carbohydrates

47. What are starch
and fiber?

48. These protein
building blocks have
to be supplied by the
foods you eat

49. What are essential
amino acids?

50. Cholesterol is made
here

51. What is the liver?

52. Bacteria live in
these areas of your
digestive tract

53. What are the large
intestine and the
mouth?

54. This is how
hydrochloric acid
works in your
stomach

55. What is work with
pepsin to digest
protein and destroys
bacteria in food

56. This is where
absorption of
broken down food
takes place

57. What is the small
intestine?

58. The stomach
produces mucus
for this reason

59. What is makes
food more slippery
and protects the
stomach from acid

60. The major organs
of the digestive
tract

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

62. These organs produce
or store enzymes and
other chemicals that
help break down food

63. What are the liver,
gallbladder and
pancreas?

64. Make your wager

65. What would happen to
some of the nutrients in
chyme if the pancreas
did not secrete its
solution into the small
intestine?

66. Food would be acidic in
the remainder of the
digestive tract, possible
causing ulcers