Ch 18 Vocab

Question 0

Nutrient that usually is the bodies main source of energy

Answer 0

Carbohydrate

Question 1

Building block of protein

Answer 1

Amino acids

Question 2

Occurs when enzymes and other chemicals breakdown Large food molecules into smaller ones

Answer 2

Chemical digestion

Question 3

Liquid product of digestion

Answer 3

Chyme

Question 4

Mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into small molecules that cells can absorb in use

Answer 4

Digestion

Question 5

A type of protein that regulates nearly all chemical reactions in cells a type of protein that speed up chemical reactions in the body without being changed or used up itself

Answer 5

Enzyme

Question 6

Nutrients that stories energy cushions organs and helps the body absorb vitamins

Answer 6

Fat

Question 7

Group of foods such as bread cereal rice and pasta containing the same type of nutrients

Answer 7

Food group

Question 8

Breakdown of food through chewing mixing and churning

Answer 8

Mechanical digestion

Question 9

Inorganic nutrient that regulates many chemical reactions in the body

Answer 9

Mineral

Question 10

Substances in foods protien carbohydrates fats vitamins minerals and water that provide energy and materials for cells devoplment growth and repair

Answer 10

Nutrients

Question 11

Waves of muscular contraction that move food through the digestive tract

Answer 11

Peristalsis

Question 12

Large molecules that contain carbon hydrogen oxygen nitrogen and sometimes Sulfur and is made up of amino acids used by the body for growth and for replacment and repair of body cells

Answer 12

Protien

Question 13

Finger like projections covering the wall of the small intestines that increases the surface are for food absoration

Answer 13

Villi

Question 14

Wider soluble that soluble organic nutrient needed in small quantities for growth for preventing some diseases and for regulating body functions

Answer 14

Vitamin