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Food and Nutrition: Surface Area

Food and Nutrition discusses surface area and how it relates to digestion. Increasing the surface area of food allows enzymes to more easily break down the food. This is because a larger surface area provides more room for enzymes to access the food. A higher surface area to volume ratio in the small intestines also allows for faster absorption of nutrients. Calculating surface area is important for determining rates of processes like emptying or absorption that depend on surface exposure.

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Food and Nutrition: Surface Area

Food and Nutrition discusses surface area and how it relates to digestion. Increasing the surface area of food allows enzymes to more easily break down the food. This is because a larger surface area provides more room for enzymes to access the food. A higher surface area to volume ratio in the small intestines also allows for faster absorption of nutrients. Calculating surface area is important for determining rates of processes like emptying or absorption that depend on surface exposure.

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Food and Nutrition

Surface area
Trigger Questions
What is area?
How to calculate the area?
A tennis court is a rectangle 23.78m long and 10.97m
wide. How to calculate the area?

A = 23.78 x 10.97
A = 260. 866
A = 261 m2
What is the area of a soccer pitch that is 100m long
and 45m wide. Show your working.
Surface area
Area for three dimensional figures
Will the speed increase or decrease by increasing
surface area?
Why the bucket Y is emptying faster than X?
Why radiators have larger surface area?
Calculating surface area
h.w
If food is given more surface area, there is more room
for the enzymes to get to work and break down the
food – teeth are important for grinding the food.

Small intestines – larger the surface area , faster


absorption
Class work
Surface area: volume ratio
Class work
Homework

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