Digestive Structures
What organ connects the mouth to the stomach?
What is Esophagus
What are the two functions of the respiratory system?
What is Taking in Oxygen & Removing Carbon Dioxide and Water
What body system protects the major organ of the respiratory system?
What is Skeletal
What are the three functions of the Digestive System?
What is Digestion, Absorption, & Elimination
What is the back of the throat called?
What is Pharynx
Where does absorption of water take place?
What is Large Intestine
When we take in air it is called what?
What is Inhale
Along with the digestive system, what other body system helps with absorption of nutrients and water?
What is Circulatory
What are the two types of digestion?
What is Mechanical & Chemical Digestion
What connects the trachea to the lungs in the respiratory system?
What is Bronchi
Where does absorption of nutrients take place?
What is Small Intestine
What muscle contracts and relaxes when you breathe?
What is Diaphragm
What two systems, other than the Digestive System, control how food moves through your body?
What is Nervous & Muscular
What is the term used to describe the muscular contractions that occur throughout the digestive system?
What is Peristalsis
What are the tiny air sacs in our lungs called?
What is Alveoli
What chemical is found in our mouths and how does it digest food?
What is Saliva & it breaks down the starch into sugar molecules
What are the two body systems responsible for Gas Exchange?
What is Respiratory & Circulatory
What systems are responsible for the first place that we physically break down food?
What is Muscular, Skeletal & Digestive
Give one example of mechanical digestion (the action and where it takes place) and give one example of chemical digestion (the chemical and where it is produced).
What is Mechanical: Chewing in the mouth or Churning in the stomach & Chemical: Saliva from the salivary glands/mouth, Bile from the liver, Enzymes from the pancreas or Stomach Acids from the stomach.
What is the scientific name for the windpipe?
What is Trachea
How does food get both mechanically and chemically digested in the stomach?
What is Food gets churned into a liquid by the stomach muscles & stomach acids (bile, enzymes) break down food molecules into smaller molecules.
What three body systems are responsible for breathing?
What is Respiratory, Muscular & Nervous
What systems are responsible for ensuring Cellular Respiration occurs?
What is Circulatory, Digestive & Respiratory
What is the definition of absorption and give one example of something that is absorbed?
What is the process through which molecules are absorbed into the blood and carried throughout the body to all of the body cells & Glucose, Vitamins, Minerals or Water.
Our vocal cords are found in what?
What is Larynx