GRADE VII

SCIENCE
Chapter- 2 Nutrition in Animals

By- Ms Manmeet Kaur

 Topics and Sub Topics
• Definition and types of nutrition
• Methods of obtaining food
• Steps of nutrition
• Human Digestive system and its parts
 By The End Of Session
Knowledge:
Students will be able to
• Define nutrition
• List two types of nutrition
• Name various methods by which an organism obtains food
• List various steps of nutrition
• Write the names of parts involved in digestion
• Understanding:
• Explain the various steps involved in nutrition
• Explain the different types of nutrition
• Ability:
• To realise the importance of all the steps of nutrition
• Skill:
• To draw well labeled diagram of human digestive system
 WHAT IS NUTRITION?

The process of taking in food by an

animal and its utilisation in the body is
called nutrition.
TYPES OF NUTRITION
Autotrophic

Nutrition

Heterotrophic
 

HETEROTROPHIC
NUTRITION
Heterotrophic nutrition is a type of nutrition in which organisms depend upon other organisms for food to survive. All animals, fungi, and non-
photosynthesizing plants are heterotrophic .

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Steps of Nutrition
Ingestion Digestion

Absorption Assimilation

Egestion
 Ingestion
The process of taking food into the body is
called ingestion
 Digestion
The process in which large and insoluble substances of
food is broken down into small soluble form.
 Absorption
The process in which digested food passes
through the intestinal wall into blood
streams.
Assimilation
 EGESTION
The process in which undigested food is
removed from the body.
Parts of digestive system
 Recapitulation
Q1. Name the scientific name of the process of
taking food into the body?
Q2. The process by which digested food passes
through blood is called _______
Q3.In egestion _______ is removed from the body.
Q4.The process in which absorbed food is taken
by cells and utilised for energy, growth etc is
called ___________