Human Body

Question 1

Calorie

Answer 1

A unit of energy stored in food

Question 2

Nutrient

Answer 2

Something that provides nourishment

Question 3

Empty calorie

Answer 3

Calories in food that do not contain nutrients usually make up most “junk foods”

Question 4

Duodenum

Answer 4

Beginning of small intestine where most chemical digestion takes place

Question 5

Villi

Answer 5

Tiny, finger like projections that line you small intestine, place where food is absorbed into bloodstream.

Question 6

Pyloric Valve

Answer 6

Valve between stomach and duodenum

Question 7

Peristalsis

Answer 7

Wave like contractions that start in the esophagus when you swallow and continue throughout the digestive system to move food along.

Question 8

Enzymes

Answer 8

Chemical that helps to speed up a chemical reaction (in this case - it speeds up break down of nutrients in the digestive system)

Question 9

Bile

Answer 9

Greenish / yellow liquid made in the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and is secreted into the beginning of the small intestine to help digestive fats.

Question 10

Lungs

Answer 10

Passive organs that fill with air and get emptied

Question 11

Pulmonary

Answer 11

Having to do with the lungs

Question 12

Alveoli

Answer 12

Air sacs found at the end of the smallest bronchial tubes. They’re covered wi5 capillaries.

Question 13

Arteries

Answer 13

Vessels that take blood away from the heart

Question 14

Veins

Answer 14

Vessels that take blood to the heart

Question 15

Capillaries

Answer 15

Tiniest vessels whose walls are semipermeable and are found at the end or arteries and beginning of veins

Question 16

Cellular Respiration

Answer 16

Process that takes place in every cell in the body where oxygen and food react to create energy, carbon dioxide, heat, and water.