2.3 Energy & Waste Flashcards

1
Q

Your body’s telling you that it needs food

A

Hunger

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2
Q

The amount of energy in food is measured by

A

calories

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3
Q

The amount of energy it takes to raise 1KG of water by 1C

A

Calories

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4
Q

Releases the energy from the processed food

A

Your digestive system

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5
Q

the part of food used to grow and survive

A

Nutrients

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6
Q

5 examples of nutrients

A

Proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals

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7
Q

the mechanical and chemical breakdown

A

Digestion

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8
Q

The 4 steops of digestion

A

ingestion, digestion, absorbtion, and elimination

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9
Q

when you chew mash and grind foor with your teeth and tongue

A

mechanical digestion

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10
Q

break down peices of food

A

chemical digestion

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11
Q

when you put food in your mouth

A

ingestion

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12
Q

an enzyme in your mouth that helps break down carbohydrates

A

saliva

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13
Q

a muscular tube that connects your mouth to your stomach

A

esophagus

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14
Q

food moves through the esophagus and the rest of the digestive tract by waves of muscle contractions

A

Peristalsis

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15
Q

a large hollow organ that stores food

A

stomach

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16
Q

An adult stomach can hold about ________ of food and liquid

A

2 liters

17
Q

Enable the stomach toexpand and hold large amounts of food

A

the folds on the inner walls

18
Q

The cells in these folds produce chemicals that help break down _________.

A

protiens

19
Q

The stomach fluid that makes the stomach acidic

A

Gasric juice

20
Q

an enzyme that helps break down protiens into amino acids

A

pepsin

21
Q

a long tube that is connected to the stomach. It is about 7 meters long.

A

Small intestine

22
Q

fingerlike projections that cover the folds of the long intestine.

A

villi

23
Q

Nutrients enter the blood threw blood vessels in this digestive organ

A

small intestine

24
Q

also known as the colon

A

large intestine.

25
Q

Is about 1.5m (5 ft long)

A

Large intestine

26
Q

absorbs water leaving behind semisolid waste

A

large intestine

27
Q

The last section of the intestine about 8 inches long

A

Rectum

28
Q

the final opening or exit

A

anus

29
Q

the semisolid waste that is about to leave the digest system

A

Feces

29
Q

the semisolid waste that is about to leave the digest system

A

Feces

30
Q

removes liquid from the body

A

Urinary system

31
Q

bean shaped organs that filter

A

kidneys

32
Q

Ureturs from the kidney that diliver liquid to this sack which is caled the __________.

A

Bladder

33
Q

the liquid waste leaves the body threw a small tube that connects to the bladder called the_________.

A

urethra