Digestive 1
Where does the first step of the digestive system take place?
mouth
Transports food from the mouth to the stomach
esophagus
Which organ filters out toxins and waste?
liver
What is the most important nutrient for life?
water
The number of chambers in a human heart?
4 (four)
Which organ absorbs all of the nutrients and sends it through to the rest of the body?
small intestines
Breaking down of material by tearing, crushing, and mashing is what type of digestion?
mechanical
What is the combination of gastric juice and food that leaves the stomach for the small intestine known as? BNye
chyme
The inability to pass feces due to dryness or poor peristalsis
constipation
Which blood vessels take oxygen rich blood away from the heart?
arteries
What is the organ that absorbs water and compacts waste?
large intestine
What is the squeezing of food in the esophagus called?
peristalsis
What are the fingerlike projections in the small intestine that increase surface area for absorption?
villi
the muscular organ that helps move food around and plays a role in speaking
tongue
Organs that exchange gases; oxygen and carbon dioxide
lungs
Releasing of air that gets into our digestive system when we sleep and eat
fart
Breaking down of food by saliva, acid, or enznzymes is what kind of digestion?
chemical
Which organ stores bile and makes it thicker before releasing it into the upper small intestine?
gallbladder
A ring like muscle that open and closes in the body to allow items in or out
sphincter
Which blood vessels take oxygen depleted blood toward the heart?
veins
Which organ produces digestive enzymes/hormones to digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins?
pancreas
Hoe does the small intestines send nutrients to the rest of the body?
bloodstream
The abnormal flow of feces
diarrhea
When hanging upside down and eating a peanut butter sandwich, your stomach will not get the food because of gravity - true or false
false
Smallest and numerous blood vessels; bridge between arteries and veins
capillaries