Chemical Change
It's both actually
Both - there is a physical change as the food is broken down into smaller pieces and dissolved and chemical change as the food is broken into its constituant chemicals.
Growing taller. All the others are cosmetic changes.
im not 100% sure but i believe its a chemical change mostly because a chemical change is when the molocules themselves change to create something else and physical is when the molocules only rearange themselves they don't change at all. seeing as how when you digest you do change whatever you have eaten by breaking it down with the acids in your stomach turning it into what comes out next.
i know that its physical change because all you saliva is doing is making the food wet
The mitochondria changes food energy to chemical energy.
With a physical reaction, some of the substance changes, but the stubstance is still the same. A chemical reaction on the other hand, is hard to reverse. Physical: freezing of water, drying of clothes, mixing of iorn nails and sand Chemical: cooking of food
Its a chemical change.
Digesting french fries is both a physical and a chemical change. The chewing, pressing, and manipulating of the french fry is physical. The enzymes, bacterias, and acids breaking them down would be chemical.
Digesting food is a chemical change.
Chemical Reaction
The digestion of food through the alimentary canal involve a series of chemical and physical changes. In the example of pizza its bread component undergoes chemical changes as it is digested by amylase enzymes in saliva. Other chemical changes include hydrochloric acid of the stomach "attacking" and digesting proteins found in the pizza.
It's actually both, my science teacher and the class are talking about that.
Physical changes are how the food is broken down. For now, it's still food. Chemical changes are when the food is broken down and absorbed. then, what's left is turned into feces. It's not food anymore.
A chemical change is any kind of reaction that changes the chemical make up of a compound. Chemical changes are mostly irreversable. Such as: Burning wood Baking a cake (batter to cake stuffs) Digesting food (food to feces) etc.
It's actually both, my science teacher and the class are talking about that.
Chewing the food is a physical change, but once the food mixes with saliva it becomes a chemical change. Digesting it is definitely a chemical change, because the stomache acids mix with the food and viola a chemical change.
physical changes
Digesting food is a very good example of a chemical change. However, it is also a common example of a physical change with the body.