Organs of the digestive system
This organ converts food to liquid through chemical and mechanical means for easy absorption after the food travels to it's next stop.
The stomach
Bile, enzymes, and stomach acid are responsible for this form of digestion.
What is chemical digestion?
There are two of these and the left is usually slightly smaller to accommodate the heart.
What are the lungs?
The left lung is slightly smaller than the right to make room for this organ.
What is the heart?
From weeks 13-17 this quarterback had the most passing yards and tied for the most passing touchdowns during this time frame.
Who is Joe Flacco?
The esophagus has a muscle movement called parastalsis used to transport food from here to here?
Mouth to stomach
These are two examples of mechanical digestion.
What are teeth chewing and stomach churning.
This is part of the throat where food and air can travel after leaving the mouth.
What is the pharynx?
These are branches in the lungs broken into three categories: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
What are the bronchioles?
The churning of a stomach or chewing of food is an example of this kind of digestion.
What is mechanical digestion.
This organ's primary role is to absorb water and salt.
large intestine
This is the name for liquified food leaving the stomach and entering the small intestine.
What is chyme?
The lungs are not a muscle so they cannot move on their own. This muscle is responsible for causing the lungs to expand and contract moving air in and out.
What is the diaphram?
These three organs produce or store enzymes or bile even though food doesn't pass through them.
What are the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder?
This organ uses specialized structures called villi to absorb nutrients from the food we eat.
small intestine
Name 3 of the 5 essential nutrients that the body gets from the digestive system.
(3 of 5): fats, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals
No extra points for answering more than 3.
These are the three types of bronchi in the lungs.
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary?
The lungs or respiratory system works in close conjunction with cardiovascular system. Name three other systems that work with the respiratory system that were named in the Ameba Sisters video.
What are the nervous, muscular, and skeletal.
Who is Myles Garrett?
This organ stores bile, but no food actually passes through it.
gallbladder
Lactobacteria is stored here and does this.
The small intestine and helps digest dairy.
This is the part of the throat that holds vocal chords.
What is the larynx?
These are at the end of the smallest tubes (bronchioles) and are where gas exchange takes place.
What are alveoli?
Are the following organs digesting food mechanically, chemically, or both:
Stomach, Mouth, Large intestine
What is both, both, and chemical?