2.3 Notes- energy and waste Digeston system Flashcards
When the food in your mouth.
Ingestion
This is also where mechanical and chemicals begin
Ingestion / mouth
Teeth and togue break down and chew and grind your food in your mouth.
Mechanical Digestion
Makes solivia that breaks down food
Sovlivia glance
Examples of Nutrients
Proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals
The mechanicals and chemicals breakdown of foods into small parcitclesand molecules that your body can absorb and use
Digestions
The four steps of digestion
Ingestions, digestion, absorption and elimination
The amount of energy in food is measured in calories
Calorie
Releases the energy from the processed food
Your digestive system
Break down pieces of food into small molecules
Chemical digestion
When you put food, such as bread, into your mouth
Ingestion
An enzyme, in your mouth that helps break down carbohydrate
Saliva
An adult stomach can hold about_____________ of food and liquid.
2 liters
A large, hollow organ that stores food.
stomach
A muscular tube that connetcs to the mouth to the stomach
Esophagus