Download Nutrition Silent Tea Party Name________________ 1. What is

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1. What is nutrition?
the process of obtaining raw
materials from food
2. What is ingestion?
the act of eating food or
drinking; the first stage of
food processing
3. What is digestion?
The mechanical and
chemical breakdown of food
into molecules small enough
for absorption
4. What is absorption?
The diffusion of small
nutrient molecules into the
blood
5. What is egestion?
The passage of undigested
material from the digestive
tract
6. What is the alimentary
canal?
The digestive tube that
extends from the mouth to
the anus
7.What is saliva?
The liquid secreted into the
mouth that contains mucus
and digestive enzymes that
start chemical digestion
8. What is a bolus?
The chewed clump of food
that leaves the mouth and
travels through the
alimentary canal
9. What is the pharynx?
The upper portion of the
throat; the junction of the
alimentary canal and the
trachea
10. What is the epiglottis?
The flap of tissue that
prevents choking
11. What is the esophagus?
The muscle-encased tube of
the alimentary canal that
transports food from the
pharynx to the stomach
12. What is peristalsis?
A series of smooth muscle
contractions that push food
through the alimentary canal
13. What is the stomach?
An elastic, muscular sac
where some chemical and
some mechanical digestion
takes place(protein
digestion)
14. What is chyme?
liquid mixture of food and
stomach fluids released from
the stomach into the small
intestine
15. What is the small
intestine?
A long, narrow tube where
digestion is completed and
most absorption occurs
16. What is the liver?
The largest organ in the
body; performs many
functions such as producing
bile, storing glucose and
glycogen, and transforming
ammonia to urea
17. What is the gallbladder?
The organ that stores bile
from the liver and releases it
into the small intestine
18. What is the pancreas?
A gland that makes digestive
enzymes and secretes them
into the small intestine;
makes the hormones insulin
and glucagon and secretes
them into the blood
19. What is a villus?
A fingerlike projection of the
inner surface of the small
intestine that functions in
absorbing nutrients
20. What is the large
intestine?
The portion of the alimentary
canal from which water is
reabsorbed into the
bloodstream
21. What are feces?
The undigested food
material and other waste
products that exit the body
through the anus
22. What is an essential
nutrient?
A raw material that must be
ingested because cells
cannot make it from other
molecules
23. What is malnutrition?
undernutrition
obesity
anorexia
bulimia
A condition caused by a diet
lacking in one or more
essential nutrients
condition caused by a diet
deficient in calories
condition of being
significantly overweight
eating disorder brought
about by an extreme pursuit
of thinness characterized by
self-starvation and
excessive weight loss
eating disorder
characterized by bingeing
and purging