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chapter 11 hunger

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

why we need food

a)

building blocks and fuel

b)

carbohydrates

c)

amino acids

d)

vitamins, and minerals

2.

Body needs to store nutrients for use when animal is not filing stomach:

a)

need regulation for food storage

b)

short term( carbs)

c)

long term( fat like a hibernating bear)

d)

need to balance body wight, metabolism, food availability and nutrition

3.

blood chemical control of eating

a)

glucose, insulin, and glucagon levels

b)

more digested food enters the bloodstream as glucose

c)

glucose is often used for the body and nearly only fuel for the brain

4.

when glucose levels are high

a)

liver cells convert some of the excess into glycogen

b)

fat cells convert glucose to fat

c)

liver cells convert some of the excess into fat

d)

fat cells convert glucose to glycogen

5.

when glucose levels are low

a)

liver converts glycogen back into glucose

b)

glucose converts glycogen back into liver

c)

glycogen converts glycogen back into glucose

d)

glycogen converts liver back into glucose

6.

when do insulin levels rise

a)

someone is getting ready for a meal

b)

after indigestion

c)

after a meal

d)

without eating

7.

high levels of insulin generated during a meal

a)

generally decrease an appetite

b)

generally increase an appetite

c)

no change

d)

a big change

8.

stomach mechanism 1 of eating

a)

distension is sensed by stretch receptors

b)

sent as a signal to brain by vagus nerve

c)

satiety

d)

release of cck

9.

stomach control of eating mechanism 2

a)

release of CCK(cholocyotokesin)

b)

close muscle between stomach and duodenum

c)

reduces gastric emptying

d)

stomach distends faster

10.

stomach control of eating mechanism 3

a)

gherlin secretion

b)

stimulates hunger

c)

gherlin levels increase before meal

d)

no gherlin secretion

11.

constant high levels of gherlin =

a)

nothing

b)

prade willis syndrome

(constant eating)

c)

obesity

d)

something

12.

gherlin from the stomach and digestive tract signals the _____ and stimulates ___/___

a)

thamlus,

hunger/feeding

b)

hypothalamus, hunger/feeding

c)

vagus nerve,

hunger/satiety

d)

medulla

hunger/thirst

13.

what starts a meal

a)

privation

b)

glucoprivation

c)

listoprivation

d)

lipoprivation

14.

glucoprivation

a)

dramatic fall in level of glucose available to cells

b)

dramatic fall in level of fatty acids available to cells

c)

dramatic fall in level of acids available to cells

d)

dramatic fall in level of fat available to cells

15.

lipoprivation

a)

dramatic fall in level of blood available to cells

b)

dramatic fall in level of fatty acids available to cells

c)

dramatic fall in level of oxygen available to cells

d)

dramatic fall in level of glucose available to cells

16.

the brain only uses _____and the rest of the body uses _____and____

a)

glucose,

glucose and glucose

b)

glucose,

glucose and fatty acids

c)

fatty acids

glucose and fatty acids

d)

oxygen

glucose and fatty acids

17.

the liver has _____that sense decreased glucose and send messages to the brain via the ______

a)

sensory neurons, vagus nerve

b)

vagus nerve, sensory nerves

c)

sensory neurons, thalamus

d)

sensory neurons, medulla

18.

receptors for glucose and lipids are located in the ____and convey signals about gluco- and liprovation to the brain through the ___

a)

liver, lungs

b)

liver, vagus nerve

c)

liver, medulla

d)

medulla, liver

19.

the leptin effect

a)

more leptin=fat

b)

low leptin levels =more hunger

c)

hormone secreted from adipose tissue

d)

may be involved in long term satiety

20.

the lateral thalamus (LH) regulates_____while the arcuate nucleus controls how ____

a)

satiety, the LH responds

b)

thirst, the LH responds

c)

hunger, the LH response

d)

sleep, the LH response

21.

the feeding circuits in the brain

a)

periaquaductal grey mater

b)

locus corelius

c)

lateral hypthamus (LH)

d)

reticular formation

e)

ventromedial hypthalmaus (VH)

22.

NPY neurons

a)

excited NPY=hunger

b)

inhibited NPY and excited CARS=satiety

c)

found in the arcuate nucleus

d)

found in ventrolateral hyothalamus and sometimes in liver and medulla