Parts of the Digestive System
Part of the body which produces bile, to help digest fats in the small intestine.
What is Liver?
Another word for the strong muscle in our mouth that moves food around while we chew.
What is the tongue?
What is a strong acid that assists in the process of breaking down food?
What is Hydrochloric Acid
What is the function of enzymes?
What is they break down carbohydrates, proteins, and fats so your body can receive energy.
How are nutrients carried to different parts of the body?
What is Blood vessels?
How is the small intestine different from the large intestine?
What is the small intestine is the main site of nutrition absorption, where digested food particles enter the bloodstream. And the large intestine absorbs water and forms waste into solid stool to be excreted?
The body part that helps you push the food you swallowed, down to your stomach.
What is the Esophagus?
Because pepsin breaks the protein down, our __________ can absorb amino acids easier.
What is Small Intestine?
What are the long chains that make up enzymes?
What is Amino Acids?
How are amino acids and glucose similar?
What is both are brought into the cell by microvilli before being passed through the blood stream?
Organs that produce and store bile; a liquid that helps to digest fats.
What is the liver (produces bile), and the gallbladder (stores it)?
What is saliva?
A watery substance in the mouth that helps soften food and makes it easier to swallow, even though it doesn’t break it down physically.
What digestive juice, made by the liver, helps break down fats?
What is Bile?
What can cause enzymes to denature (take away or alter the natural qualities of)?
What is changes in the optimal temperature and PH.
What do microvilli act like?
What is Sponges to absorb nutrients.
Where nutrient absorption primarily occurs in the digestive system.
What is the small intestines?
What is peristalsis?
This movement happens in the esophagus and intestines. It’s like a wave that pushes food along the digestive system.
What organ releases gastric juices to help digest food?
What is the stomach?
The enzyme in the stomach that is responsible for breaking down proteins.
What is Pepsin?
What are the three main layers of the small intestine?
What is Circular foldings ⇒ Villi ⇒ Microvilli.
Function of the Large Intestine.
What is absorbing water, and forming and pushing stool to be secreted?
What is segmentation?
Besides peristalsis, the small intestine also uses this process, where it squeezes and moves food back and forth to help mix it.
What is the name of the enzyme in saliva that helps break down carbohydrates?
What is Amylase?
The enzyme, that is produced by the pancreas, and helps break down fats into fatty acids.
What is Lipase?
What are triglycerides made of?
What is Glycerol and fatty acids.