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Nutrition Word Puzzle #2 — myVocabulary.com

  • The Interactive Lesson Plan puzzle is 1 of 8 vocabulary activities and word puzzles.
  • Use the Greek and Latin word root word list to select the correct answer. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • The AUDIO word story is available in all Root Words Lesson Plans #1 through #6.
  • Common Core alignment to a Interactive Puzzle is to 4 key phrases: "Grade Level", "Greek and Latin Roots", "Precise Meaning" and "Context". CCSS Alignment Strand numbers for Specific Grades: Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4 Greek & Latin Roots: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Directions:

To solve the Nutrition vocabulary word puzzle use the Latin root, the word definition and the Nutrition vocabulary word list. Put your answers INSIDE the word boxes and move down to the next puzzle. When you hit Submit, you will get back the correct answers, the use of the vocabulary in a sentence and the percentage score for correct answers.
If you want a Nutrition word puzzle graphic, go to the image here: http://myvocabulary.objectsdev.com/images/VUcompete2002bake1.jpg – the same one is below.
Clue:

In addition to this Nutrition Word Puzzle, myvocabulary.com also has a Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Search, Crossword, Definition Match, True or False and Synonym or Antonym activity. A Nutrition vocabulary list of 465 health and fitness vocabulary is available from the pull down menu called Word List in the header above.
Nutrition Lesson Plan ideas:

  • Discuss food groups/diet and how they affect behavior.
  • What are some of the consequences of drugs, alcohol or tobacco to one’s health?
  • Give examples of ways that families, peers, colleagues and friends help one’s mental health.
  • What kinds of things can be done to reduce stress? (Deep breaths, walking, eat wisely, exercise)

You have permission to make a hard copy for Nutrition vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.
Vocabulary Word List:

Nutrition vocabulary list:
allergen, amino acid, appetite, calories, carbohydrates, cholesterol, dietitian, electrolytes, fermentation, fitness, ingredient, metabolism, mineral, nutrition, perishable, processed, proteins, RDA, supplement, vitamins

1) Maintenance and improvement of health through exercise and proper diet (noun) Root VITTEN = to befit

2) Something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole (noun) Root PLE = fill, full

3) Liable to spoil, decay or rot; something that goes bad quickly (adjective) Root PER & IR = thoroughly & to go

4) The chemical breaking down of an organic substance produced by an enzyme and often with a gas (noun) Root FERUERE = to boil, be agitated

5) Changed or prepared by special treatment (adjective) Root CESS = go, yield

6) A person qualified in or practicing the science of applying the principles of nutrition; someone who teaches healthy eating habits (noun) Root DI = day

7) One of the food substances that make up a mixture; an item of food that is part of a recipe (noun) Root GRED = step, degree

8) Basic rate at which the body expends energy to maintain itself in a resting state (noun) Root BOLE = a throw

9) Dietary components (sodium, potassium and chloride) essential to fluid retention, nerve impulse transmission and digestion (plural noun) Root LYTOS – loosen

10) Various organic nutrient elements and compounds needed in very small quantities for health (plural noun) Root VITA = life

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