Overview
Mouth, pharynx, esophagus
Stomach/Intestines
Accessory Organs
Nutrition
100

The breakdown of food molecules into their individual components.

What is digestion?

100

The act of swallowing.

What is deglutition?

100

The part of the intestines where most of the absorption takes place.

What is the small intestine?

100

The functions of the gall bladder.

What are storing and concentrating bile?

100

Macronutrients. (name them)

What are carbohydrates, fats and proteins? (your body needs these in large amounts)

200

The 2 parts of the digestive system.

What are the alimentary canal and the accessory organs. 

200

The 3 stages of swallowing.

What are the voluntary oral stage, pharyngeal stage and esophageal stage?

200

The function of intestinal villi.

What is to increase surface area and increase absorption?

200

Carries nutrient rich blood from the stomach, and intestines to the liver.

What is the hepatic vein?

200

Micronutrients. (general categories)

What are vitamins and minerals? (the body needs these in small amounts)
300

The accessory organs. 

What are the liver, gall bladder and pancreas?

300

The 3 mechanical actions that happen when you swallow to protect the airway.

What are the soft palate rises, the epiglottis closes off the trachea and the laryns rises?

300

The 3 main functions of the stomach.

What are storage, secreting and mixing?

300

Th cells in the liver that remove old red and white blood cells.

What are phagocytic cells?

300

Essential amino acids.

What are the 9 proteins that the body cannot make? (You must eat proteins that contain them)

400

The mixture of food in the stomach.

What is chyme?

400

The 3 types of salivary glands.

What are parotid, sublingual and submandicular?

400

The 3 functions of the hormone gastrin.

What are increasing the lower esophageal sphincter tone, decreasing the pyloric sphincter tone and increasing the production of stomach acid. 

400

An accessory organ that secretes enzymes which break down proteins, fats and sugars.

What is the pancreas?

400

Fat soluble vitamins.

What are A, D, E and K?

500

A delicate layer of beneficial microbes, mucus and immune system molecules. 

What are biofilms?

500

The components of saliva that tears do not have.

What are mucus and amylase?

500

Four substances the stomach glands secrete.

What are (hydrochloric) acid, mucus, pepsinogen and intrinsic factor?

500

The 4 functions of the liver.

What are the production of bile, processes nutrients, synthesis (manufacturing chemicals), phagocytosis, detoxifying. 

500

Bulk minerals.

What are calcium, magnesium and phosphorous? 

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