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Eating and breathing: Our Systems

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    Digestive and Respiratory systems
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  • What is the process of taking in food and oxygen to obtain energy called?
    Nutrition
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  • What do we call the process when food enters the mouth?
    Ingestion
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  • What does food move through in order to reach the stomach?
    The oesophagus
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  • What are the smaller tubes that branch out from the trachea?
    The bronchi
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  • Our cells combine this oxygen with nutrients to produce energy, during this process out cells produce a waste has called ____.
    Carbon Dioxide
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  • Inhalation or exhalation? Diaphragm relaxes and moves up.
    Exhalation
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  • What moves from the air in the alveoli into blood in the capillaries?
    Oxygen
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  • A skeletal muscle. Helps during breathing. As it contracts the lungs expand and when it relaxes, air leaves lungs.
    The diaphragm
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  • What are the capillaries?
    Tiny blood vessels
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  • We inhale____ and exhale ______.
    We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
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  • What does chyme mix with while passing through the small intestine?
    Bile and pancreatic juices
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  • What is propulsion?
    When swallowed food moves to the stomach.
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  • What is mechanical digestion?
    When food is made smaller when it’s chewed with the teeth.
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  • What is chemical digestion?
    When substances in the saliva and the stomach break down the food into simpler substances called nutrients.
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  • What is it called when nutrients pass into the blood in the small intestine?
    Absorption
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  • Food waste that has not been absorbed is eliminated as feces through the anus.
    Defecation
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