Vocabulary
The process that changes the chemicals in the food that you eat, breaking them down into simpler chemicals that the body can use
What is chemical digestion
Which teeth are responsible for cutting food like scissors?
What are the incisors?
Gastric __________ allow the stomach to expand as it fills with food.
What is gastric "rugae"?
(Vocabulary) The amount of a substance in a defined volume is _____________.
What is concentration?
The system of digestive organs through which food passes
What is the digestive tract?
What type of teeth are wisdom teeth?
What are molars?
Name at least 2 organs where chemical digestion that benefits your body occurs?
What are the mouth, the stomach, or the small intestine?
True or False: For any chemical that the body uses, the higher its concentration, the better.
What is false?
Digestive organs that are not part of the digestive tract
What are accessory digestive organs?
What is false?
Which of the following is not part of the digestive tract: the stomach, the esophagus, the pancreas, the large intestine
What is the pancreas?
The kidneys remove chemicals from the blood plasma. If the concentration of the chemical is not too high, they put it in the ___________. If the concentration is too high, they put it in the ____________.
What are the "blood" and the "urine"?
The coordinated motion of smooth muscles that push the contents of an organ forward
What is peristalsis?
When you are drinking something and laugh, the liquid sometimes comes up through your nose. What structure isn't doing its job when that happens?
What is the soft palate or the uvula?
What macronutrient does bile help you digest?
What is fat?
The blood-cleaning system found in the kidneys. The kidney has more than a million of them.
What is a nephron?
To disperse fluid that normally doesn't dissolve so that it spreads throughout a mixture
What is emulsify?
True or False: Sphincters are rings of muscle that open and close organs like the esophagus.
What is true?
What must happen to the acid in the food once it leaves the stomach?
What is "It must be neutralized"?
What is they are put back into the blood?