Digestive System Organs
Structure that connects the
mouth to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
ANTI-BONUS 100
-100 Points
The process where food is broken down into smaller pieces and the nutrients are absorbed by the small intestine.
What is digestion?
BONUS 100
+100 Points
The first body part of the digestive system.
What is the mouth?
BONUS 200
+200 Points
Filters liquid waste products out of the blood passing through them
What are the kidneys?
A measure of the amount of energy in a food.
What is a calorie?
the process of sweating.
What is perspiration?
What is bread, pasta, sugar, rice, potatoes, Etc.
The organ that absorbs the nutrients from food and digestion is occurring here.
What is a small intestine?
Pear shaped organ that holds urine to allow for urination to be infrequent and voluntary
What is the bladder?
Gives you ‘Fast’ Energy: most readily available
source of energy & main source of glucose
What are carbohydrates?
process by which Metabolic waste is eliminated from an organism
What is excretion?
The muscle contraction of the esophagus
What is Peristalsis?
Creates solid waste called feces.
What is the large intestine?
Muscular tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder
What are the ureters?
Used to build and repair muscle and bones
and make up your hair and nails as well.
What are proteins?
Name one of the 4 other systems the excretory system works with.
Circulatory, Respiratory, Endocrine, or Integumentary.
Why is the respiratory system part of the excretory system?
When exhaling, the lungs remove GASEOUS waste from the body, (especially CO2).
Removal of CO2 helps to regulate blood pH.
(CO2 makes the blood more acidic – lowering the pH)
Rings of muscle that separate one section from another along the digestive system; they work to keep food moving in one direction.
What are Sphincters?
Passageway through which urine is discharged from the bladder out of the body.
What is the urethra?
Main molecules that carry
information for the cell (such as how to
build certain proteins)
What are nucleic acids?
Which organ is the most important in the excretory system?
What is the kidney?
One of the 5 major waste products produced by cells
Carbon Dioxide, Water, Salt, Urea, Various Minerals