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Why is nutrients important?
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because they provide energy.
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What do calories do?
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they provide energy for you to live.
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Whats a type of nutrients thats a major type of energy?
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Carbohydrates
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Whats another word for sugar?
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Glucose
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What are energy containing nutrients composed of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen?
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Fats
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What is protien?
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A nutrients that contains hydrogen.
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What are protiens made up of?
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amino acids.
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Why are vitamins important?
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because they act as helper molecules in a variety of chemical reactons in the body.
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What are nutrients not made by living things?
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minerals.
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Why is water important?
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because with out water you will have a break down of nutrients.
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WHats the Percent Daily Value?
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Its the amount of nutrients you take in.
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Whats digestion?
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Its the process which your body breaks food into small nutrient molecules.`
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What are the two kinds of digestion?
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mechanical and chemical digestion
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Whats it called when small nutrient molecules pass throught your digestive wall ad into your blood?
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Absorption.
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Whats the mouth watering liquid called?
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saliva
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Whats the first stage of mechanical digestion?
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Your teeth eating the food.
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Whats the first stage of chemical digestion?
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When the saliva breaks down starch molecules.
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What are enzymes?
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The chemical in the saliva.
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What seals off your wind pipe when you swallow?
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Epiglottis.
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WHats the long tube that carries food to your stomach called?
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esophagus.
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Whats a thick slippery substance called?
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mucus.
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Whats a J-shaped pouch that is located in the abdomen?
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Stomach.
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Where does the most chemical digestion take place?
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Small intestine.
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Whats is the biggest organ?
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liver
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What organ produces bile?
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liver
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What is bile?
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a substance that breaks up fat molecules.
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What is the gallbladder?
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it stores bile (not produces).
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What does the pancreas do?
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produces enzymes.
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Whats the rectum?
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The waste is put in a solid form.
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Whats the anus?
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where you remove watse.
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