Stages Of Nutrition

Question 1

Ingestion/Eating

Answer 1

Food is taken in by the body

Question 2

Digestion

Answer 2

Food is broken down.

Question 3

Absorption

Answer 3

Digested food passes into the bloodstream.

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

using the food in the cells of the body

Question 5

Elimination

Answer 5

Getting rid of undigested food

Question 6

Physical Digestion

Answer 6

Taking large pieces of food and breaking
them down into smaller pieces.
Happens in the
Mouth (Teeth)
Stomach (churning)

Question 7

Chemical digestion

Answer 7

Involves the use of chemicals called enzymes to breakdown food

Question 8

Chemical digestion

Answer 8

Enzymes are
chemicals that
speed up reactions without being used
up in the reaction

Question 9

Chemical digestion How enzymes work

Answer 9

Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a product e.g. substrate=starch,enzymes amylase (saliva),product= maltose (sugar)

Question 10

Chemical digestion

Answer 10

Amylase in mouth

Question 11

Chemical digestion

Answer 11

Enzymes in the stomach

Question 12

Chemical digestion

Answer 12

Most chemical digestion happens in small intestine

Question 13

Chemical digestion

Answer 13

Bile made in liver to
break down fats

Question 14

Chemical digestion

Answer 14

Pancreas makes
digeslive juices
which contain enzymes